Hegel excelled at stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words and will remain as a monument to German stupidity

From The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant, 1933.

Not very long ago it was the custom for historians of philosophy to give to the immediate successors of Kant — to Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel — as much honor and space as to all his predecessors in modern thought from Bacon and Descartes to Voltaire and Hume. Our perspective today is a little different, and we enjoy perhaps too keenly the invective leveled by Schopenhauer at his successful rivals in the competition for professional posts. By reading Kant, said Schopenhauer, “the public was compelled to see that what is obscure is not always without significance.” Fichte and Schelling took advantage of this, and excogitated magnificent, spider-webs of metaphysics. “But the height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously been known only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most bare-faced general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, and will remain as a monument to German stupidity.”

"Serving up pure nonsense" - Hegel morphs into postmodernism morphs into critical theory morphs into intersectionality. All the same basic recipe of oppression, identity and violence but with kinder, gentler monickers but as poisonous as ever.

A monument to stupidity with still many adherents.