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marxism
Title: marxism
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2128 | Pages: 9.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
marxism
In the Declaration of Independence, our founding fathers wrote about basic rights among men. The pursuit of happiness is one of these rights. This fundamental human right is up for interpretation, and it is an idea, like many others, that came as a result of the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. On the other hand, the ideas of Karl Marx came about after the Declaration of Independence was written. Each philosopher would have …showed first 75 words of 2128 total…
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Therefore, Marx might see "the pursuit of happiness" as a fundamental right that men are born with in a communist state, but one that is unobtainable by the working class in a democracy. Also, the definition of "happiness," according to Marx, would be a social state in which all men are truly treated equal, and where no man oppresses another through restraints such as corrupt government
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