Hans J. Morgenthau is part of the classical realist branch. They argue for nothing higher than the state in international relations. Realists are split into three categories. Classical realists argue that politics is driven by man's selfishness. Neo-realists believe that states act within the anarchic state system, all states vying for power. Neo-classical realists are somewhere in the middle. E.H. Carr devised the branch of IR theory realism after fusing the works of Hobbes, Thucydides, and Machiavelli and he proposed realism the opposite to idealism. E.H. Carr launched a massive criticism on idealism (liberalism) in his book The Twenty Year's Crisis. Carr outlines that idealism cannot see forward, whereas realism and specifically Marx who he held as a realist were far-seeing into the future.
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