Source one, a quote by Ayn Rand, displays a need to convert to a classical liberal ideology. That a “pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism” is what is needed to succeed, that Adam Smith’s ideology should be used to its full extent. Rand is stating that an economy should be based on self-interest, without government intervention. No form of collectivism is wanted in this form of economics, a person is able to work their own goals, not towards the good of the collective. Rand goes on to state that the state and economics should be separate like church and state are, and for the same reason. There are many reasons church and state are separate, I think that there are two main points to be made with this statement, the first …show more content…
These ideas are left-wing, as they support the good of collective, the good of the majority of workers. He states that the wealthy minority exercise cruel oppressions upon the majority, this can only be fixed by government intervention, as rarely do people willingly give up their power, and those that take it away by force often only replace the name associated with the oppression of the people. It is accurate to say that Marx is against an individual collecting too much wealth, due to his attitude towards wealthy people, seeing them as cruel and that he calls the system that keeps them in this position -capitalism- unnatural. The cruelty of the wealthy is represented by the factory, a place that keeps a person working in the same place like a slave all day, with little to nothing to show for it except perhaps enough to live like a peasant. In Marx’s eyes this was the cruelest thing ever, take a persons health, time and give back next to nothing. Capitalism brought nothing but misery upon the common working people, so he wants to abolish it and create a new system,