t they have been convinced of, to the point of willfully taking the guilt of innocent blood onto the whole human race. What is this phenomena? To a rational individual, the passion of the masses is not only illogical, but depraved and evil; it is the product of an emotional momentum with nothing inherent in it to check its behavior. While, undoubtedly, a zealous mass sentiment could possibly work for a good thing, what is to insure that it will? A mass of humans has no collective moral conscious; there is no set of laws that it obeys, neither head nor heart exists to serve as guide. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx uses caustic and powerfully persuasive rhetoric to inflame the 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 inclinations towards society. Man seeks to protect his individual natural rights to exist as himself. He wants to become what his desires and abilities dictate that he should. 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. When man determines the way that society is governed, he is obligated to address this problem. Over the course of history, man has strived to find a way of governing itself such that both qualities are satisfied. A design is sought of ethical ideals, where each individual is happy with his relation to society while society at large flourishes because of the contributions of its constituents. Supposedly, when a p

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