Marx Vs John Locke Essay

He viewed present-day capitalism as creating tension between the working and the capital-owning middle class. The foreseeable conclusion of this tension was a violent revolution where the working poor took over and violently overthrew the capital owning rich and took control of the means of production to have a strong hold on those of the people. If all of what Marx had wished for had gone through, in the world the end of capitalism would cause property of a private individual and levels of class to slowly disappear, and because according to Marx, the government is to be present to protect the property and wealth of the bourgeoisie; government would soon disappear as well.
Both Rousseau and Marx were addressing the same issue that I found fairly
John Locke said that it is very important for society as well as a place for government to have a grasp and control on its people, by being able to us land and private property as limits toward various extents. For Marx, he was on the other hand very against the ownership of property. He was contrastingly hoping for the abolition of private property as one of his main ideas for a successful society. Also in The Communist Manifesto, I learned that he didn’t only mean it in terms of property like the sidewalk we stand on or the garage you or your car in, but the rights to production. By being able to own and produce a product or good for oneself seemed very over the top for Karl and he thought that it would ruin society all in all. In Karl Marx’s terms, he thought that this is a great fault of society, how there had to be someone working and someone in charge of 30 other individuals in the sense of a production line. He firmly believes that the fact and allowance of an individual to have access to private property were the reason for all problems as it allowed for growth and