Question

socialist perspective on human rights about 250 words

Answer 1

According to Karl Marx and Lenin, the real fountain head of the fundamental rights is the dialectal process of history. These rights have not been conferred on man by nature but are the product of this process, playing their role in the various stages of history; they must finally come to an end in the Communists classes’ society. To begin with, these rights helped the bourgeois class in overthrowing the feudal society and establishing the Capitalist Society. Later on, the proletariat’s used them as a weapon in their class struggle against the capitalist. Now under the Socialist order these rights are protecting the interests of the toiling people and finally for the sake of freedom and equality, there will cancel themselves out under Communism. According to this philosophy these rights are neither natural nor the essential part of man’s person, nor are the impressionable. They have no special significance or importance. They are part of the general law of the land[^20] . Therefore in view of above view, to Socialists, man is sum total of a stomach and matter, and economic struggle in its only goal of life. When this position of man in society has been determined what other rights are there to be conferred on him save food and shelter, and countries guarantee only these material rights and do not recognize any other right based a moral value, it is the logical outcome of their outlook on life. Unless and until they change their view point in relation to man, they can not be expected to extend and expand the sphere of fundamental rights