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This 8 page paper examines the ideas of Marx and Mill and then evaluates this novel by Atwood. Various examples are used. Some quotes are included. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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communism. For Marx, the freedom was not in the ability to acquire wealth, or the opportunities for wealth, but rather in equality. It was the ability to live and feel
good about ones environment. For Marx, class defines society and people are unhappy because of how capitalism is implemented. Marx also says that when the conception and execution of labor
are separated, the work is no more human than that of a mere insect that was propelled by blind instinct (Marx as cited in Tucker, 1978). Here, the point of
alienation is emphasized. The drive which is within man is truly remarkable and Marx recognized that. However, he also recognized that in order to have such embraced, the destruction that
capitalism brought would have to be reconciled. In effect, capitalism steals creativity because it forces people to work at things that they are not meant to do. Many people report
feeling enslaved by corporate America. They cannot enjoy their lives and are living paycheck to paycheck. While the promise of the American dream is dangled in front of their eyes,
the reality is that few attain true freedom. This is perhaps why many European countries have socialist programs far broader than anything available in the United States. The people recognize
the failure of capitalism and see socialism as a solution. Within Marxs paradigm, there would be a transformation from capitalism to socialism and finally communism. For Marx, the freedoms of
the bourgeoisie were superfluous. He writes, "in The Critique of the Gotha Program... religious freedom was a strictly bourgeois concern; the job of a workers party, was to liberate the
worker from the witchery of religion " (Marx, 1875 as cited in Brentlinger, 2000, p. 171). This is just one example of the critique. Here, it is thought that the
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