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A 6 page paper comparing the views of society as held by Karl Marx and Auguste Comte. Marx was naturalist and Comte founded positivism, and both held very different political ideologies. Neither, however, believed that any individual could approach the larger society in terms of relative worth. Both sought to obliterate the individual in favor of the good of the state. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Marxs view of capitalism and ownership of production, one economist quipped that even though we now know that Marx was mostly wrong, he had some ideas that prevented him from
being wholly wrong. The same sentiment can be applied to Marxs views of the role of the state. Comte was a contemporary
of Marx and founded the positivist school as well as what would become the discipline we now refer to as sociology. Both have less relevance in todays more conservative
environment constrained by the realities of public finance, but it is Marx that remains furthest from and most left of center. Marxs
Naturalism Marx was not the idealist as we tend to envision idealists in that there was nothing romantic or utopian in his views.
He held that society and the state did evolve over time, but he stopped short of the utopians view that individuals could do anything to alter the course of
that evolution. With the possible exception of Britain, Marx was convinced that only revolution could alter the natural course of society to institute what he believed were higher ideals.
He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them to believe that they truly
were the center of the universe. Individuals could not hold that place of course, for there can be only one true center of
anything. Too many individuals, too much individualism created far too many "centers" for Marxs theories to address. Instead, individuals needed to be lumped together in collectivism so that
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