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Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilich Lenin - look at their very similar views on the state and discuss whether they are applicable to today's societies.
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Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilich Lenin had very specific views on the bourgeois society of the 19th and 20th centuries. Both agreed that the upper ruling class dominated the capitalist society, and that this society was against the lower classes. Marx and Lenin believed that private ownership was the cause of all social ills, and that the way to remedy these ills was to establish a communist state. They saw the abolition of the existing class structure and society as necessary. Marx and Lenin wanted to create an economically advanced society with "the capacity to provide all its members with the means to live diverse and fulfilling lives."1 In this essay I am going to look at their very similar views on the state and discuss whether they are applicable to today's societies. While not denying that each individual had unique capabilities, Marx attacked the presumption that the starting point...
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