Nietzsche And Marx's Dominant Ideas In Their Societies

Both Nietzsche and Marx challenge the dominant ideas in their societies. For Nietzsche, the dominate idea was Christian morality, and for Marx, capitalistic ideology. Two people differentiate in their ways of argument and intentions of arguments. By comparing the nobles and everyone else and explaining bad conscience, meaning the feeling of duty and obligation, as an evolved inwards punishment from which people enjoy themselves, Nietzsche points out the petty past of the widely embraced Christian ascetic morality. Also through describing his naturalistic origin of religion, Nietzsche argues that God is only a creation of humans. And he further develops that religion, ascetic ideal, is merely a desperate move for people to find a justification for their sufferings. By arguing that there is a genealogy of morality, Nietzsche intends to make the believers of Christian …show more content…
Marx thinks ideology as a system of beliefs, presupposition and sentiments which serve the benefits of the creators of the system. With the economic power in hand, the ruling class can shape the social discourses and inject its ideology into the general public. By discussing the historical transitions of ruling classes and their ideologies, Marx argues there is no natural ideology. Therefore the capitalists’ argument that certain behaviors or beliefs under capitalism are natural is implausible. Also, as his analysis shows that capitalism only serves the benefits of capitalists at the expenses of the majority of the population, it is obvious that the capitalistic ideology cannot be beneficial to the majority of the society however the capitalists propagate. Therefore, the capitalism ideology should be rejected for the benefits of the majority. By arguing this, Marx tries to clean the ideological objections towards communist revolution and to better win the support of the society, who were under influence of the dominate capitalistic