Concept of State

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This paper discusses the evolution of the state so that as the goal of a society that would better meet more needs of the individual developed, a civil society evolved, as did did the idea of supremacy and state. The paper discuss this evolution through western tradition. It looks at what is right and wrong and how the state is to appropriately act to solve its collective and individual problems.

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"The proletariat is then, according to Marx the very tool that will be used to strike down the bourgeoisie and the market system, just as the bourgeoisie sought and successfully defeated the feudal system that held it down before. The Manifesto clearly states that the working class rising above its captors is the natural progression, simply the next revolution in a long list of those that have come before. Marx had a keen sense of how labor is ignored in the current market, by allowing the human to be removed from it in economic thought, by a system of symbols that remove the individual from the equation, assigning value to his product but not to his actual labor, a labor that is often determined not by the arbitrary exchange value but by nature. In Marx's Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy he states that the separation of the two is inherently misleading and devalues the human aspect of labor."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aquinas, T. Aquinas: Political Writings
• Luther, M. The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther
• More, T. Utopia
• Locke, J. Second Treatise on Civil Government
• Hobbes, T. Leviathan

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