Communist Manifesto And John Stuart Mill

Mill’s On Liberty and Marx’s The Communist Manifesto are both political works about how they believe the government should be run in which they both believe that the people should not be oppressed by the government or other people. However, both differ in their opinions of what type of form a government should be; Mill believes that the government should take on the form of liberalism where it plays a limited role on society that emphasizes on individual freedom and freedom from tyranny of the majority. Marx on the other hand, believes that communism is an ideal form for a government where it will emphasize equality for the people that will eliminate exploitation among one group of people over another. While Mill believes human nature is detached …show more content…
He believes that tyranny of the majority may allow society to infringe on individual freedom will lead to conformity and oppresses and threatens an individual’s freedom, helping it to promote social censorship. For example, Mill stated that tyranny of the majority is more horrible than political oppression because it will affect and permeate people’s lives more, (Mill, Pg. 4) This shows that regular people such as family, friends, colleagues, and classmates will have more of a direct impact on an individual than people at the political or national level, showing that it is not the government or society that needs to be in check, but the other individuals or group of people that are harming the individual. Mill explains that people who wants freedom from social tyranny has to resist social conformity and moral behaviors that does not fit with their ideals, beliefs, or lifestyles, in which society at this point is a tyrant that enslaves the soul. Protection must be made on the basis of principle and can only stop if the individual do harm to society …show more content…
However, Mill does not believe it is in the nature of people of backward society or in the nature of children to be free because these are the types of people who needs to be educated first before they have the opportunity and chance to be free or else it will be futile for them to improve and progress at this stage as humans. Marx on the other hand, believes that the Socialist revolution can only happen in industrialized country. It is not that the nature of the people in the country are of a better natures than others, but because the country themselves has the capital necessary to sustain the people. This is refuting Marx’s optimistic belief on human nature and his claim that people are inherently good to maintain and sustain a society through their moral and work ethics that they do not need the government’s help to maintain their communities. Marx probably view that by taking down the bourgeoisie and capitalists, the ruling class now will be the working class in which the society can still sustain itself because the government still can support the people through the capital the government has an the industries and commerce that are still producing goods to sell. However, communism in