Rousseau and Marx are left-wing thinkers who believe in freedom and equality for all human beings. Rousseau and Marx agree that modernization and industrialization ruin society, Rousseau believes it leaves men in chains hooked to materialistic things, and Marx argues that it creates class differences where not everyone is equal to obtain these materialistic things. Marx was interested in moving beyond materialist equality to a society in which all are equally free to develop the fullness of their potential. Rousseau like Hobbes and Lock distinguish between what is natural and what is constructed by society. He argues that other philosophers do not go far enough back in describing the state of nature, Hobbes and Locke describe civilized, competitive men corrupted by civilization, rather than describing the true natural state of human beings. Although Rousseau recognizes that the state of nature is a hypothetical idea, he believes that it is necessary to explain what life was like before society in order to truly understand and know how to build a just and equitable society. Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau all agree that humans are born equal in the state of nature, and like Locke, Rousseau also believes that the state of nature is happy, with optimism towards human nature. He believed that people only cared about survival and reproduction instincts, such as sleeping, eating, and having sex. Hobbes saw this state of nature as a brutal and constant state of war, while Rousseau argues that this point is reached when societies develop and populations grow, as do people's needs. People begin to live together in families and then in small communities, then they begin to acquire property and the propertyless jobs for those who own property in... middle of paper... have a say in what is produced and how it is produced . products and also how they are distributed. This is how Marx believes that work and the market can become democratic and that human beings can be emancipated. In Western capitalist societies, communism is described as a system that practices wealth distribution where everyone earns the same amount of money and owns the exact same things without competition. . In reality Marx's idea of ​​communism offers people the chance to develop their capabilities and advance their potential to the maximum extent, which is actually denied in the capitalist class system. Marx agrees with Rousseau that political and civil rights are important and give people more power, but he goes further and argues that for people to be truly free they must have control over their work and production by democratizing the economic and labor system..