Young Goodman

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he mass of the proletariat into revolution. He calls for the abolishment of government as it is known, to be replaced with the forward movement towards a community of mass sentiment. According to Marx’s economic theory, the present state of capitalism is inherently unstable; by its own nature it is destined to exhaust itself leaving an over-simplified society of human beings that have been reduced to the status of things. The oppressed workers, owners of no property, will collectively revolt and reconstruct society into communism, where all property in publicly owned. However, after the immediate revolution, it is the proletariat who become the rulers and it is up to them to instill communism. The proletariat consists of the majority of the people, an enormous group of individuals, who, with the blood of recent revolution on their hands, have to establish a new way of governing society. What is to insure that these united people will start and maintain a community of communal brotherhood? And why would Marx suppose that the individual human being would be satisfied with becoming communal or that it is best for him? The conflict here is the conflict of man in society. Each man is an autonomous individual programmed on at least an animal level for his own personal survival, he experiences distinct emotions and desires, he is given certain facilities and skills different from other human beings. At the same time, he is a social being, desirous of affection and recognition from other humans and sympathetic to their experience of life. The two parts of man sometimes conflict with and other times are augmented by each other. A man’s individual experience is his own; he feels, thinks, desires, and works of his own accord. It may even be asserted that these activities are even more central to his being than his social creatureness. Man knows himself best and it may be said that his inclinations toward being individual are stronger than his ...