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This 8 page paper examines the ideas of J.J.Rousseau and Karl Marx and a variety of ideas as it respects society and freedom. Their ideas are compared to Locke and Hobbes and the Founders. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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different from the ideas to come from the Founding Fathers or even Enlightenment theorists like Hobbes and Locke. Ideas differ in terms of the human condition, historical progression of government
and society, and the role and rights of individuals in the ideal society. Finally, their ideas about freedom are truly different as well. For these authors, there is something very
evil and detrimental about government. Individual freedom is squashed as a result. In respect to the human condition, Rousseau and Marx each held that people were imprisoned by the restrictions
imposed by society. For Marx, alienation would come about due to the fact that individual workers were not able to express themselves. Every wage laborer is at the mercy of
his or her employer. They must do what the employer wants and while theoretically, capitalism creates great wealth, one has to ask, at what price does this wealth come? In
other words, while some do well under a capitalist system, and are in fact free to pursue what they like, there is still a problem at hand. People do become
alienated and this is detrimental to the human spirit. With communism, although there is less choice, man can be happier with diversity. There would be less alienation, according to Marx.
For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for most people, the opposite would be the case. Marx did contend that man leads "a double existence
-celestial and terrestrial. He lives in the political community...and in civil society where he acts simply as a private individual, treats other men as means, degrades himself to the role
of a mere means, and becomes the plaything of alien powers." 1 Marx did not view man and his rights the same way that an American would, for example.
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