In fact, the right to private property implies that individuals can have free will in accumulating their patrimony, widening even more the economic discrepancy from man to man. In lieu, the right to equality envisages that the law is equally applied to all indiscriminately. Contrarily, in its non-political notion equality contradicts the very conceit of freedom as it was supposed to protect individuals against any kind of discrimination, whereas in society inequalities thrive (Marx 61). Eventually, security represents the State’s task in guaranteeing citizens’ rights within the bourgeois society, fomenting in that way human beings’ right to selfishness. Therefore, all those rights - even if hidden under the illusion of Liberalism - has always contemplated the private interests of men, promoting egoism rather than collectivism. Consequently, within the economic and social sphere, men are all unequal between one …show more content…
The State, indeed, even declaring itself above the differences of class and education, in order to exert its universality, entails the existence of some elements such as the private property that, accordingly, continues to exist. Through the rule of law, the State splits man’s life in two: the citizen, namely the political subject or the citizen with rights and duties and the bourgeois, member of the civil society interested only in his private affairs (Marx 53). The solution proposed by Marx is the conceit of “human emancipation,” which can only be attained when the real man, or rather the bourgeois, will incorporate in himself the citizen; hence, becoming part of a whole human community, when finally men will be equal among each