... John Locke's, The Second Treatise on Government and Karl Marx and Frederick Engel's, The Communist Manifesto. In The Second Treatise on Government, Locke explains that man's state of nature is a law of nature which is generally good. Men give up some of their rights to enter into a social contract with a government whose purpose is to protect their rights (property), life, and liberty. If the government does ... not do their job, the people have the right to overthrow it. The Communist Manifesto on the other hand tries to ... explain the goals of Communism. It takes us through the clas...

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