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Tiffany Balcom

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Rasmussen College

May 23rd, 2018

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I've chosen to write about Karl Max and Plato to focus on their political thought. I will focus on these two philosophers in the project for purposes of comparison and get the differences in their political views. Plato believed that lack of communism would lead to a clash of ideas and the interests between objective and appetite. The basis of Plato’s communism is that property, family instincts, and personal interests bring about a distraction to a man’s attention to the responsibilities he has to the community. He believed that an ideal state comprised a division of labor and it's divided into classes. On the other hand, Marx thought that communism would bring an end to the division of labor and classes. I chose the two philosophers due to their close and contrasting ideas on communism and the foundations of a good state.