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Can Idealism justify Communism?

Marx bases all his theory on materialism, but is there a way to argue for communism using idealism? For instance, could one argue that, given enough time, the Hegelian (idealist) dialectical process will inevitably result in a communist society? And are there any philosophers out there who disagree with Marx's materialism but still argue in favor of communism as an economic system?
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Many luminaries of the Communard tradition cited Hegel, and Eastern Bloc intellectuals often avoided censorship by proclaiming themselves ‘Young Hegelians.’ But it is important to remember that for Hegel, the dialectic is not a process which gradually uncovers and resolves contradictions in the material and socioeconomic structures of society; rather, the dialectic is the motor of history precisely because it shapes consciousness. For Hegel, all mind is social mind, but mind, developing according to a rational schema, instantiates the metaphysical particularities of a certain society, temporally and socially determined. 
Hegel charts the development of the rational state and civil society out of the limitedness of barbarism. Hegel sees the culmination of history in the transcendence of consciousness above forms of ‘determinate being.’ The ethical individual is not a mere function of various customs, laws and mores which wholly determine him, but rather he overcomes this relation of mere limitedness and assumes the role of executing and enforcing those laws to which he is subject. 
For Hegel, the process of history, arising from the simple universality of the totalitarian state,  mediates the parochial character of self-concern and self-interest which constitutes the second stage of social life, and establishes a self-determining totality in which the universal mobilizes the particular contents of individual conscience and those particular contents manifest the whole. 
Material and economic elements in the Hegelian system only exist in the form of their metaphysical universality and logical essence. For instance, the abolishment of class is understood as the consequence of the emergence of this dynamic of mutually dependent needs (since the satisfaction of one’s needs are dependent on the satisfaction of the others, the totality of all needs is established by the drive of each individual’s particular needs) that manifests the universal form of authentically ethical human relations. 
Hence, the worldview, the goals of the project, and the nature of the inquiry of the Philosophy of Right and his Philosophy of History diverge dramatically with Marx’s own project.