Bach captures the horrific nature of this event exquisitely in "The St. Matthew Passion." The chorus explodes into rising human voices, violently one upon the other, in a terrifying spectacle of mob mentality. The listener is disturbed; the wrongness of it frightens and saddens him.

This is an example of a mass human sentiment. It is undeniably immoral and frightening in its intensity. The people

However, what would a man be without the society his born directly into? Certainly, some parts of an individual man's personality are determined by the environment in which he finds himself; he may be able to think, feel, and endeavor all alone, but how does he think? What makes him choose to endeavor for one thing and not another? At least in part, these things are determined by the social part of man and what he has learned from the influence of other human beings. Man uses a cooperative language, he guides his thought with the histories of former human beings, and in modern society, his food, clothing, shelter, etc. are, most likely, the products of the work of many people. Perhaps, indirectly, he is dependent on all people past and present.

Already a commodity in the eyes of society, how does he see himself? He has no property, no savings for when he cannot labor, his wife and children are reduced to mere wage earners, he no longer puts faith in religion, national character, law, morality, etc. Because he sees them as bourgeois interests. What is left for him besides his animal pleasures? Could this not be defeating? Where does his new found strength come from and why is it essentially communal?

But questions still remain. Marx claims that the idea of property under capitalism is wrong because it is only in existence for a tenth of the population; law, morality, family, culture, nationality, etc. Dissolve for the proletariat. But what of them? Have we shown that they are all forms of oppression? Are they meaningless simply because they were abused? Are they to be abandoned because they were stolen from the majority at one time? When a new consciousness arises what form does it take? What art does it produce? It seems that all that is left is an economic machine. Be it a smooth and good one, it is still merely economics. A man can now contribute happily to society, but what does society go toward? What guides it? And what will shape the individual? What laws does he obey? What beauty does he seek? What does he believe in?

In Adam Smith's, "The Wealth of Nations," wealth is never exhausted, thus capitalism can continue indefinitely playing itself out. Wealth constantly begets itself, becoming more and more efficient, producing better products, saving time and energy, and generating more and more wealth. Smith claims the result of this economic system, combined with good government, will be "universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people." Marx contends that this is not the result; that because the system demands that the wages of worker are calculated not by the value of the product he produces, but by the minimum the worker needs and the relation of workers needed and workers available competing for jobs, "the quantum of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the laborer in bare existence as a laborer."(Cmp19)

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Approximate Word count = 2838
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)