Karl Marx

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April 19, 2014

 

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His ideas and writings influenced the French Revolution and the Socialist theory. Marx and Rousseau share the communistic view that private property for citizens and the division of labor has had a negative effect on society, for these traits serve to enhance capitalism and create class conflict. This conflict, Rousseau believed, is part of a social contract of sorts created by the bourgeoisie in which the rich and powerful deceived the proletariat, or working class, by making them believe that their views and priorities were the same...
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This is very similar to Marx's theory of false consciousness, which is the false sense that the middle and lower classes have the same goals and ideals, and is used by the bourgeoisie to subtly control the proletariat. In a departure from the common ideas of most of his fellow Enlightenment thinkers, Rousseau takes the position that if the "natural state" still existed, there would be no property to fight over and no government to create inequality, the nature of human beings is free of conflict...
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