Was Hegel Right and Marx Wrong?

I.M.O. Marx was correct about economics being the driving force of society. Of course Christians and Jews may have a teleological point of view regarding history, as I do, yet Hegel's opinions about the spirit coming to realize itself in history seem wrong when applied to a state or government. Presently all worldly governments appear to be corrupt or a retarding factor that reinforce elites and the economically privileged. It is not reasonable to posit as did Hegel that governments are the high point of civilization or of God.

I tend to regard individual life rather than collective life as more meaningful by far. Even so, human societies are very competitive. Hegel’s idea that the German nation was the highest point of the evolution of God to self-awareness is condescending, smug and chauvinist to the extreme in regard to Germany. Adolf Hitler probably appreciated the idea of German superiority quite a lot.

I like Hegel of course- he was after all putting forward a messianic and Utopian dialectic in a way- perhaps in the spirit of the age that influenced Charles Darwin in regard to dialectics. Dialectic for-itself is a simplistic and incorrect way to view the material exposition of a big bang or inflaton and coalescing of mass from energy as thermodynamic disorganization and cooling occurred over billions of years. Sexuality may be dialectic, and the expression of a man as thesis and women as anti-thesis producing the progeny of synthesis is paradigmaticly interesting of course, yet I believe that applying that incorrect viewpoint to economics is more interesting. Real economics is far more pluralistic; unless wealth becomes so over-concentrated that it becomes non-synthetic, asexual reproduction.

Really I don’t know why anyone feels a need to over-credit either philosopher with accuracy. World government form certainly is not responding to existential challenges these days environmentally, or demographically in a positive way. Many prefer the purely teleological models since man seems too corrupt and avaristic to repair the problems of human civilization for-himself. Jesus suffered and said blessed are the poor in spirit, crucified for being non-materialistic and seeming to not support the head of state of his time with political allegiance; most of mankind is to the opposite extreme pursuing money and like the famous congressman said back in the day- "Money talks and bullshit walks"- that is the zeitgeist.