close to that of its weaker members is more easily controlled. Individuality is lost because all members meekly accept the values of society in order to escape the feelings of guilt and disassociation that follow a separation from the norm. The feelings of guilt and isolation are powerful aspects of the Christian religion that not only keep its members in line, but keep them from discovering their own truths and therefore their own individuality.Like Nietzsche, Marx saw a need for change in the present and acknowledged that life was a series of conflicts whose outcomes would bring about this change. However, he saw individuality as defined by what economic class a person belonged to. Capitalism to Marx symbolizes the same types of problems with the world, as does Christianity to Nietzsche. However, Marx’s definition of individualism is exactly what Nietzsche sees as the problem with the world. In Nietszche’s mind, Marx’s philosophy is just as bad as Christianity.“The Socialist rabble… who undermine the worker’s instinct… his feelings of contentment with his little state of being – who make him envious, who teach him revengefulness… Injustice never lies in unequal rights, it lies in the claim to ‘equal’ rights… What is bad? … everything that proceeds from weakness…”(Nietzsche, 191)Unlike Marx, Nietzsche felt that man should accept suffering as a part of life and to be content with his place in that life. In his Communist Manifesto, Marx tries to do exactly what Nietzsche sees as the problem with society and with Christianity. Marx wants to make all people of the world into one large working proletariat class and to put everyone on an even plane. His idea of the best way to correct the world’s problems is the exact thing that Nietzsche sees as being the world’s problem. A man’s life should not be spent pitying himself and ...
