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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Rousseau's ideas with ideas to emanate from The Communist Manifesto. The theorists are discussed in the context of their time period and beyond. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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has nothing to lose but chains as they have a world to win and the workers of the world should unite. These rallying cries come from two different ideological periods
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rousseau (1762) says: "This sum of forces can arise only where several persons come together: but, as the force and liberty of
each man are the chief instruments of his self-preservation, how can he pledge them without harming his own interests, and neglecting the care he owes to himself? " The theorist
says in effect that individuals are not capable of making decisions for themselves. Some might equate him with the democrats of today who try to make policy to "help" the
people. They do not give the people a choice, but rather, tax the people and spend the money that is purportedly for their own good. On the side of government,
however, one must see that there has to be rules. A government cannot exist in absolute chaos, so then, absolute freedom can never be guaranteed anyway. Rousseau explains that
the problem is to find a form of association that would serve to protect the people and where all will obey and remain as free as ever (Rousseau, 1762).
Again, it is impossible for the government to impose restrictions and expect the obedience to be construed as freedom. Rousseau, on the other hand, claims that the Social Contract would
resolve the problem (1762). But does it really? Fundamentally, laws restrict freedom and Rousseau claims that man can be free only through laws. While perhaps the rhetoric seems to
suggest an imposition on freedom, it is really something that supports it. In the United States for example people value their freedom but realize that they must obey the law.
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