Thomas More portrayed the society of Utopia as a perfect society, a society that all the writers strive to create in their own ways. More described Utopia as a society where there is no private property ownership. People live in homes without any locks for a total of ten years before they rotate to go to another house using a lottery system (Utopia Book II 7). Furthermore, everyone is treated equally and there is an abundance of everything as Raphael described, “Utopians have plenty of everything, including time to contribute to society and improve their minds” (Utopia Book II 9). Since there is an abundance of everything, people are not greedy. There is more equality among all the people. They have enough time to acquire knowledge which could
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However, other writers such as John Locke, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Thomas Hobbes made the efforts to establish a better or perfect society in a more realistic way on the basis of their viewpoints on human nature and the basis of social order.
John Locke’s viewpoint on attaining a better society relied on his idea of human nature. According to John Locke, “Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions” (TOM 110). Thus, Locke believed that human nature is not greedy, but they are always looking after each other. Moreover, they are not competing all the time and are equal. Furthermore, Locke believed that the people have the right to life, liberty, and property and it is the responsibility of the government to protect people’s right. Moreover, Locke says …show more content…
Marx believed that the process of production and the distribution of the means of life is necessary to be examined to analyze a society and its problems. Marx further related these means of production to class struggle and labor power. Furthermore, Marx believes that the Bourgeoisie class possesses all the means of production and exploits the Proletariat class by making use of the working class labor for their own profits and thus, make their private property. Therefore, Marx proposed the idea of “Communism” under which he depicts this class struggle within the society and promotes the idea of no private property, meaning where all the property is publically owned and everyone works and gets what they deserve on the basis of their ability and needs rather than acquiring it inherently. Furthermore, he was strictly against capitalism and believes it to be inherently unstable. This idea of Marx is based on the fact that the bourgeoisie has transformed various professions such as “the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers” (Communist Manifesto 16). Furthermore, according to Marx, with the free market the bourgeoisie class takes all the profits of the capital and pay these laborers with the minimum wages which cease them from further increasing their conditions and thus, their labor is not serving them
However, other writers such as John Locke, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Thomas Hobbes made the efforts to establish a better or perfect society in a more realistic way on the basis of their viewpoints on human nature and the basis of social order.
John Locke’s viewpoint on attaining a better society relied on his idea of human nature. According to John Locke, “Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions” (TOM 110). Thus, Locke believed that human nature is not greedy, but they are always looking after each other. Moreover, they are not competing all the time and are equal. Furthermore, Locke believed that the people have the right to life, liberty, and property and it is the responsibility of the government to protect people’s right. Moreover, Locke says …show more content…
Marx believed that the process of production and the distribution of the means of life is necessary to be examined to analyze a society and its problems. Marx further related these means of production to class struggle and labor power. Furthermore, Marx believes that the Bourgeoisie class possesses all the means of production and exploits the Proletariat class by making use of the working class labor for their own profits and thus, make their private property. Therefore, Marx proposed the idea of “Communism” under which he depicts this class struggle within the society and promotes the idea of no private property, meaning where all the property is publically owned and everyone works and gets what they deserve on the basis of their ability and needs rather than acquiring it inherently. Furthermore, he was strictly against capitalism and believes it to be inherently unstable. This idea of Marx is based on the fact that the bourgeoisie has transformed various professions such as “the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers” (Communist Manifesto 16). Furthermore, according to Marx, with the free market the bourgeoisie class takes all the profits of the capital and pay these laborers with the minimum wages which cease them from further increasing their conditions and thus, their labor is not serving them