Political_Theory

Political Theory Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche were all nineteenth-century contemporaries who joined in the assumption that a philosophy of politics necessarily entailed a vision of human history. Although there may be several areas of agreement among all three of these thinkers, Mill and Nietzsche, despite differences between them, represent dimensions of a persistent resistence to some of Marx’s most fundamental claims about history and politics. A prime example of a problem that both Mill, and Nietzsche agree to disagree with is Marx’s views on individual liberties, and personal freedoms. Karl Marx’s believes as written in The Communist Manifesto that the basic theory of the Communists is the “abolition of private property”(Marx pg.232). He then proceeds to explain how the abolition of private property relates to a persons personal freedoms. According to Marx, when you abolish private property among individuals you take away their personal freedoms because a man’s freedoms are derived from the ability to own your own property and work for your own benefit. He writes: “We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right to personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is freedoms, mill, personal, society, individual, property, own, marx, private, individuals, government, freedom, person, nietzsche, because, should, liberty, point, people, liberties, feels, community, believes, abolition, one, must, man, himself, development, character, better, away, way, stuart, right