Abstracto

The Differences Between Marx and Rousseau on Critique Capitalism

Mengjun Zhong

Rousseau, as an important philosopher in the age of enlightenment, can find his romantic criticism of capitalism in many of his works. Although Marx was also criticizing capitalism, the difference is that in Rousseau’s criticism, he ignored that capitalism is the process of human development and it’s a social fact, Marx's critique, however, was based on a purpose dedicated to the transformation of society. The greatest difference between Rousseau's and Marx's critique of capitalism is that Rousseau’s criticism of the romantic color reposed the method of equalitarianism to improving the society to close to the original state, but Marx’s criticism of capitalism is not only a philosophical criticism but has returned to economics and had a deeper analysis of the nature of capitalism.