The Doomed Enslavement of the Individual in Capitalist Society as Viewed by Marx

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…e masses' own slave morality vanish. The Greeks believed the individual should sacrifice himself for the development of the state, and modern thinkers believe that the development of the state should be sacrificed for the individual. As we forge ahead into the new millennium we must ask ourselves whether Plato's and Marx's ideas are contradictory, or if we can synthesize them into a future that feeds the unfettered development of both man and his community.