Their ideas as outlined in Mill's On Liberty and Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party give us insight into what the degree of the differences, and if they had known each other, how the conversation might have gone. ... Also, Mill's ideas on liberty undercut not only the theories of communism, but also any instruments that would be necessary to implement a communistic government. ... However, for Marx, this is quite a different story, "In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property," (1003). ... To this ...

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In 1844, Marx wrote and published "The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844," better known as "The Paris Manuscripts" and then later in 1848 published "The Communist Manifesto.... " (Santilli, 1973) For human beings, work amounts to a life purpose. ... They have a conscious life activity, and in this activity, humans create and express for their own purpose. But in the modern system of private ownership and the division of labor, the worker is estranged from this essential source of identity and life purpose and is ultimately reduced to the level of animal...

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