A 5 page paper discussing free market philosophies of Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky, George Orwell and Adam Smith. Marx
maintains that it is within the power of 'the people' to take control of the power structure controlling profits of owners at the expense of workers. However, Marx's 'the people' is little more than a euphemism for the state, the Big Brother of which Orwell so chillingly wrote. Chomsky espouses the same general attitude, but on a greatly expanded scale: multinational corporations are the owners of production; the people of Third World nations are those exploited and abused. He allows no credit for those people having intelligence of their own and the power to control their own destinies. It is the Smith model that survives as the most legitimate. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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get. That control certainly included the course of the market, and it even included rudimentary attempts by the Thought Police to suppress the better part of human nature.
Unpleasant facts and occurrences were fodder for the "memory hole" where such things were placed after being removed from society. "Class" Philosophies
Marx and Engels (1992) sought to do much the same. Their grand view of society was one rooted in the late 19th century. It was one that was
incapable of growing with advancing technology or any emerging thought. Of course the dictator was only to be in place for a limited time, and his role was to
facilitate the shift from control of society by the owners of means of production to those whose labor fueled those means of production.
Marx and Engels sought a classless society, one in which the people - in the form of the state - owned the means of production as well as supplying the
labor necessary to run it. They failed, however, to realize that the pursuit of the "classless" society would serve only to drive all members into one class, that which
was limited in size in capitalist nations and the one from which most members had hope of escape were they able to work for their own gain rather than for
the good of the state. Chomsky sees the corporation as the most evil contrivance since the formation of the American government. Of
them, he writes, "There happen to be huge concentrations of private power which are as close to tyranny and as close to totalitarian as anything humans have devised, and they
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