>>718856849
You're honestly not really wrong in your assessment
From what I remember, it's been ages since I read german idealism, Caesar mangles what "hegelian dialectic" is, it might actually be closer to Marx's dialectical materialism.
He suggests the idea that a thesis, the NCR, inherently creates an antithesis, the legion, with the inevitable conflict creating a new synthesis devoid of their flaws, he victorious legion attaining a state for its army.
It's worth noting that in the way he describes it caesar frames this as a natural order of events, akin to gravity or time. Which in turn means the legion is no more evil than a storm or flood and solely a result fo the NCRs existence, which are also framed as the ones truly at fault here.
Furthermore he claims that conflict is inevitable and in then arguably also the legion's victory.
Now he might be right to some extent, the NCR is corrupt, its rule of law is broken, the central authority is messed up while the legion does not have those issues but is at the same time dependant an exploiting the land and people to h point where it is unsustainable, the system makes them incapable of building a true industry or skilled workforce, even "free" people are little better than cattle when facing the iron fist of the legion which engenders a slave mentality.
Hypothetically those 2 could cancel each other out but thinking that way is naive at best.
