Karl Marx And Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse On Inequality

Short Assignment 2: Social Inequality Social inequality has been around forever and is still existing today. It is everywhere and because no one is blind to it. Society knows it is a huge issue and it is seen in the news every day. Social classes are what creates social inequality and it is impossible for social classes to disappear and everyone to become equal. The well know Karl Marx and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Stephen Colbert all provide explanations of how applicable social inequality is in society and how big of an issue it is. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s, Discourse on Inequality, he enlightens readers on social inequality’s foundation and how society’s greedy characteristic feeds social inequality and creates the issue. In Karl Marx’s, The Communist Manifesto, he draws out the two main classes of society, and how they could be eliminated with his system …show more content…
He believes that prior to social interaction, humans were happy and at peace. Language starts to develop due to natural forces and then new human needs come along. Inequality was not created through human nature, it formed when societies first formed. He explains how social inequality will be around forever by explaining, “that is the faculty of self-perfecting, a faculty which, with the help of circumstances, develops all the others in succession, and which resides among us, as much in the species as in the individual, whereas an animal is, at the end of several months, what it will be all its life, and its species at the end of a thousand years will be what it was during the first year of this millennium” (Rousseau). He makes a valid point by discussing our society and how the trends continue on forever unlike animals. Humans come from animals but are not the same; animals don’t understand how to dominate over others. This quote is a prime example of social inequality never disappearing because we created