Author : Ejeh Paulinus Chikwado

To understand the concept of individual and society, as well as their interrelatedness is quite
important since man is essentially social and his life is fully human when lived in fellowship with others. Karl Marx
highlighted the concept of the individual as well as that of society. He showed equally the interrelationship between
the two. However, this paper highlighted certain views of Marx which apart from being unacceptable, seem to be
very impossible to attain. One of which is his idea or aim for a classless society in which there will be no more
conflicts, no more struggle, no more exploitation, no more suffering, no more poverty, everybody will live in peace.
Thus, the position of this paper is that it is absolutely impossible to create a society according to Marx’s view. The
paper also argues that conflict is an inevitable human characteristic that can either be positive or negative and not
absolutely negative as Marx opined.

Affiliation :

General Studies Division, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. Nigeria

Keywords : Society, Individual, Marxism, Materialism, Communism
Date : Monday ,11 ,September ,2017

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