Karl Marx And Fredric Bastiat Comparison Essay

Fredric Bastiat and Karl Marx thought themselves to be able to see the future, to be able to see where history was going, to where the world was progressing to. Perhaps they saw themselves to be men of vision, able to predict not only how things would become but how they should become. Whether one considers them to be visionaries or perhaps men with high and unobtainable ideals, is up to one’s self. By some they were thought to be visionaries, some took their words to heart, others would consider their works and their words nothing more than worthless drivel. Both Karl Marx and Fredric Bastiat lived during a similar period of the nineteenth century. Despite the similarity of the times they lived in, they had vastly different views of the world. Their views are much …show more content…
Marx thought it only a matter of time before the working class as a whole rose up and over threw the rich. That the line would eventually be pushed too far, that the workers would reach the end of what they were willing to endure. Bourgeois and proletarians, or the rich and the poor were in a constant struggle for control and that the proletarians would eventually rise up and take control of what was rightfully theirs. That the workers could and would take being ground into the dirt for the gain of others for only so long. Once the proletarians had taken control, the means of production would be distributed among publically owned corporations. In simple terms this would be the rise and formation of socialism. Since the only private property would be things such as houses and, personal trinkets, there would be less inequality. Class distinctions would be diminished, while there would still be some who had more than the common man, people would be decidedly more equal than they had been under the old system. This new system would reduce the strife that had existed between the classes of