realize their potentials. They were too busy trying to get enough food, shelter, and protection to develop their higher capacities. It was Marxs belief that communism would provide the kind of environment in which people could begin to express that potential fully.Human potential and Nature- To Marx, the special property of human nature is our creative intelligence, the ability to raise a structure in ones imagination and then to erect that structure in reality. He believed that human nature was not carved in stone, but was affected by the nature of the social setting. Consciousness and its ability to direct activity were the distinctive characteristics of human beings. They could visualize your ideal society before it actually happened. He sees man as creative and with unlimited potential. He gives man a great deal of power and hope. Labor- Marx saw labor in a capitalist society as taking on some distinct and perverted forms. Labor, in capitalism is reduced to a means to an end. In capitalism, labor is not the equivalent of work, activity, and creativity. In a capitalist society, you would see people working side by side in a factory and not even know the persons name to the right and left of you. You were not to talk because talking meant that you werent busy enough and that you needed more work. Individuals perform less and less like human beings and are reduced to their work to animals and inhuman machines. People are forced to compete with one another for more benefits. Workers are unable to express their human qualities. A communist society would be created where no man rules over any other individual as well as their social relation to one another. In a communism society, workers are friendly and jobs are equal as well as labor put into them. A doctor would receive the same recognition as a shoe salesman and their jobs would be considered equal. Their wages are not taken away from them by higher powers and fin...
