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In the papers, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and, The Social Contract, by Jean Jacques-Rousseau the two authors discuss the struggle that it takes to develop a healthy prosperous state. It is a struggle between man and man to together develop the best way to survive. This struggle occurs on many levels. ... Struggle in society according to Marx has occurred ever since history has been recorded. ... ” These two political theorists, Marx and Rousseau, believe in struggle as a catalyst of change in society. The notion of struggle in political life is the backbone to the conclusions drawn up by Marx and Rousseau. Marx’s struggle can be seen as an evolutionary change. ... Both authors rely on the idea that men struggle for freedom. ... As Rousseau idealizes a time comes when men must join forces together to survive. In this instance there is a power struggle over the authority of the state. Marx and Rousseau use struggle to come to their conclusions in which the best state is developed for providing the common good. ... Marx and Rousseau believe it is possible, and they use the nature of struggle to set up their ideal political life in which men can benefit from one another and reserve their freedom.
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains (Rousseau 141). ... Rousseau’s proposed way of finding harmony between political authority and man is to enter into a social contract. “Each of us places his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will; and as one we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole (Rousseau 148).” The social contract is one in which man engages into for mutual preservation, and to form a state that they can all benefit from. ... Man loses his physical freedom by entering into this contract, because he agrees to behave according to the contract.
Approximate Word count = 1578
Approximate Pages = 6.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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