... the march of progress. Yet in developing productivity, various social institutions have been created that have introduced exploitation, domination, and other evils; the price humanity pays for progress is an unjust society (Pious). Every social system of the past, Marx argued, had been a device by which the rich and powerful few could live by the toil and misery of the powerless ... ). The major features of modern democracy include individual freedom, which entitles citizens to the liberty and responsibility of shaping their own careers and conducting their own affairs; equality before t...

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... 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 ... their property, man must give up some of their freedom. Freedom is when people are not subject to the arbitrary will of others. In the state of nature, man's natural law and instincts govern his behavior. He h...

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