Modern society’s most incredible feats and most gruesome cessations of social justice have come as we, the people, strive for an ideal life for ourselves and those closest to us. Sir Thomas More, through Utopia, and Friedrich Engels, through The Condition of the Working Class in England, give us firsthand perspectives into the inception and development of the capitalist society we know today. Our graduation from communal property to private property has torn through the Cottage Industry, the need for factory workers in the developed world, and now is on a path to eliminating a need for the “99%”. Using the ideas from the More and Engels, we are able to compare and contrast their separation of class and property as well as how social “wrongdoing”
