Mill Vs Marx

Mill and Marx on Wealth and Justice by Adrian Navarro

Stuart Mill and Karl Marx each had their own reasons for what makes the world unjust. Mill thought that it was unjust to deprive anyone of personal liberty, property and other things which belong by law. He also thought that it was unjust to deprive anyone of their own happiness. Marx on the other hand believed that property, classes, competition, and inequality all made the world an unjust place. He thought that these things separated the people and didn't allow people to reach their full potential and happiness. In order to make the world more just Marx believed that we needed to change these things, he created ten different proposals to create a change in our world. He believed that …show more content…
Marx's entire approach is for the benefit of the people. While Mill states that the main goal is to be happy Marx's approach would ensure that most people are happy. Marx approach allows people to have many jobs and not just one, it also allows people to feel just like everyone else. This is significant as there are many differences between people today, such as inequality, racism, different social classes, and etc. Mills approach doesn't guarantee people that they will be happier, it simply says that people should work to make themselves and others happy. Marx allows people to receive free education and be able to work to become anything they want. The end of classes would create no greed or want leading everyone to satisfied because everyone has the same as them. There will also be no opposition towards classes and no hatred towards the “peasants” or the “surfs” because those will be no more. This is significant as these differences caused wars such as the civil war, and other world wars. Removing social classes will help decrease the level of tension between people and overall provide moral benefit to people. The abolition of private property also helps the majority of the people because now people won't look at other people's house in awe and say “wow i wish i lived in a house like …show more content…
I believe this is because these are very difficult things to achieve. People today still work to achieve happiness, but it is difficult when there are so many things on people's shoulders now a days. Because of this people are sometimes less happier because they have to work harder to get by. Mills theory in my opinion isn't in society because it doesn't take into account any kind of law or juridical system. There are times where people do bad things that may make them happy. For example we cannot condone a serial killer's activities because it brings them happiness, because it overall is a bad thing for everyone else. Marx idea of communism also isn't used by societies because it places too much trust in the state. While this started out as a great idea for people to become equal and remove inequality it has since created another problem which is corruption in the state. With all the power in their hands the people from the state would be likely to overuse this power. This is why democracy and capitalism prevails because the people have a say in everything that happens. Another reason why Marx idea isn't practiced is because it doesn't encourage any sort of economic growth of a country. In order for people to live better new technologies have to be made and companies have to prosper. This can't happen in Communism because there is no