Wednesday, February 25, 2009

blog assignment

Ok, so I have a couple of questions for Karl Marx.
In capitalism, people are given individual freedoms, or it is claimed that they are. This individual freedom is the driving force for acting on self interest and producing captital. My question is does Karl Marx believe of recognize INDIVIDUAL freedom/free will? I would like to add how his writing suggests almost as if people are forced into certain positions, customs, and ways of living through some sort of brainwashing of society.
Everything that Karl Marx has written and explained deals with society as a whole, and what is fair/unfair for the community. Going along with the common theme of CIE, does Karl Marx endorse the idea that human beings have certain unalienable rights? Individually? In extension to this question I would like to add how Locke was a certain way in explaining how people have rights, but Marx does not take this route. He certainly would not use God to explain this, but most probably Darwinian Evolution. (Survival of the Fittest?)

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