What are the differing views on this ideology, and more importantly how are they relevant to today's society? ... First, European history professor and author Carl Landauer expresses the idea that anarchism is simply a utopian way of thinking. In his work European Socialism, Landauer claims government is a "lesser evil" than a society without "repressive force.... A political philosophy that believes everyone should be allowed to do what ever he wants is by its nature a very unstable philosophy. ... Perhaps the world is just not ready for anarchy, or perhaps anarchists sim...

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Due to the problems caused by alienation and exploitation, Marx introduced the idea of socialism, that which he believed was a society that served the individual needs of man. ... Socialism: Alienation is one of the central concepts in Marx's philosophy, providing an analysis of what is perceived to be an essential feature of the capitalist way of production and how it relates to humans. ... Marx was not the first philosopher that suggested socialism but he did differ from other philosophers by moving away from the unrealistic expectations of a utopian civilization and the desire and a...

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This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. ... Philosophers were the first to realize what the aristocratic society, the bourgeois, and the bourgeoisie failed to understand. ... Mimicking the scientists" curiosity, philosophers questioned the basic workings of government and society and in doing so gave rise to the Age of Enlightment. ... The philosophers were elite members of society, and despite the context of their messages, they were not always free from discrimination. ... In its early ye...

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