From Thales to Searle, or someone else who’s working in the profession currently, regarding epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, whatever, who do you find gave the clearest and truest picture of the universe and man’s place in it… which philosopher do you find yourself saying, “yeah, that guy got it right” more than any other? And, of course, why?
Any philosophy which held as it first premise the fact that its impossible to get it “right” because right is a product of developing material conditions, physical change, would have an advantage over anyother.
Marxist theory and Hegelian theory was the first to admit this, and so is the winner.
The rest of philosophical history is but a foot-note to Marx.