People from different places in the world live according to standards, which the society dictates. Human beings start practicing the societal decrees at significantly tender ages. Consequently, people develop behaviors that are congruent with the traditional practices evident in a distinct society. Individuals and societies may become curious thus seeking to decipher how to shift from such traditional practices.
Karl Marx in his book “the communist manifesto” presents a situation that explains the origin of the first world countries. Through this, he explains how established ideologies can be changed. An example is how proletarians contributed to the conversion of societies that practiced slavery, oppression and violence in the societies by enhancing good governance and thriving economy.
In diverse areas in the world, societies follow a certain social arrangement. Dissimilar social classes, which garnered respect from their minors existed (Marx and Engels 22). However, he argues that with time, the issue of the social ranks was replaced by trade and industrialization. He affirms that proletarians resulted to more sensible groups or classes with fewer cases of slavery.
The invention of America gave new routes for development. The availability of markets of India, American colonization and other colonies in the region resulted to effective trade. The growth of commodity exchange resulted to development of many states and countries. This affected how people conducted themselves and their social lifestyles changed as a result.
Rousseau in his book “the social contract” has zeal in understanding how to achieve freedom in a civil society. While trying to understand what freedom refers to, he compares it with the physical freedom that human beings enjoy that has no constraints on their behavior.
However, he argues that for us to enter in to this social contract, we must put restrictions on the way we behave so that it becomes possible to co-exist peacefully in the society.
Therefore, we force ourselves to change our perception on some ideas and behaviors instilled since childhood. We sacrifice our physical freedom with civil freedom that makes us rational human beings. The civil freedom also helps develop morality therefore, doing away with some old behaviors and ideas.
Karl Marx explains how transition from communism to socialism could change our behaviors and practices. In his writing, he explains how these two terms differ from each other. In a society where communism typifies governance, citizens are not entitled to possession of property. The community owns all resources and the government, advocates for equal access to services for all its citizens.
Karl argues that the change of this government from being a communist to a capitalist would mean that laws of the land changes. The change in the country’s governance would imply that the ideas and behaviors that people hold to must also change (Marx and Engels 22).
Sigmund Freud derives his discussion on adoption of religion, arts and science as a methodology of solving the most challenging concerns in our lives. He argues that religion helps significantly in solving issues that seem intricate thus require external help.
Concurrently, religion plays a part when creating awareness amongst people on what they should embrace in order to live peacefully. However, the teachings of these religions help in changing peoples’ behavior and ideas in relation to some issues.
In summary, it is evident that the way of governing any state and other external factors influence the citizens’ behaviors and their way of reasoning. This becomes imminent by examining how Karl Marx explains the transition from communism to socialism. The importance of religion and civil freedom in relation to our behaviors becomes manifest.
Work Cited
Marx, Karl & Engels, Frederick. The communist manifesto. Tendington: Echo library, 2009. Print.