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compair the ideas of early socialist with that of marxist ​

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Plamenatz says that most of the ideas that go to make up the social theory of Marx and Engels are already present somewhere or other in the early socialists’ works. The early socialists anticipated several aspects of Marxian socialism.

The early socialists on the one hand and Marx and Engels on the other hand have held the view that without changing the relations of productions and relations of property a radical change of society is not possible. Both Saint-Simon and Marx have interpreted the evolution of society almost in the same light.

We can say, Marx is indebted to Saint-Simon for the materialist interpretation of history. Saint-Simon started from the primitive society.

Marx also did the same thing. Like early socialists Marx holds the view that the overall progress of society is due to technological progress, although the technology has been misused by the capitalists for the fulfillment of their narrow and sectarian economic purposes. For that deliberate misuse technol­ogy cannot be overthrown.

Rather, it is to be employed for common benefit. Both early socialists and Marx thought that the capitalist system of production was singularly responsible for the miseries of the working class. Both also concluded that there were contradiction in the capitalist system and because of these contradictions the capitalist system would collapse the vacuum would be filled up by the socialist system.

However, as regards the collapse of capitalism and advent of socialism there are differences of opinion. The advocates of capitalist system argue that in capitalism there is a self-regulatory system or mechanism which would save it from crises. This controversy created a lot of heat and a schism grew among the socialists or Marxists.

Later on Gramsci said that the civil society saved capitalist system from many crises. Resemblance between them is to be found on another point. The socialist predecessors of Marx resented the amount of wage paid to the workers because it was quite insufficient for comfortable living.

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It was termed by them survival wage. Marx also has strongly criticized this minimum wage system. The workers cannot get any opportunity to raise their living standard. A large portion of the commodi­ties manufactured by the capitalists remained unsold and because of that reason capitalism suffers from frequent overproduction.

Anarchism comes to be the dominant feature of capitalism. So all socialists, Utopian and scientific—came to the conclusion that private ownership of the means of production leads to poverty unemployment and inequality. So this system is to be abolished at first.

As to the nature of future society, the early socialists and Marx share views. In the future society which will be socialist there shall be no system of private ownership and, hence, private property. All the early socialists agree on this point.

Marx also accepts the proposal of the abolition of private ownership. Marx and his predecessors have endorsed the importance of planning in building up of future society.

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Answer 2

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Socialism is a modern doctrine and is Western in origin, emerging with the development of industrial capitalism at the start of the nineteenth century. Socialism denotes a broad system of ideas. Marxism is a materialistic conception of history which seeks to explain the development of all societies and furthermore, make predictions about future social change.

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