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• explain and analyse 3 ways in which socialist thinkers have viewed human nature


  • contaminated by capitalism - eg Marx + Engels - capitalism has removed human nature from its true nature of fraternity and co operation - contrasts to liberals who believe human nature is suited to capitalism
• Marx and Engels believe that capitalism has removed human nature from its true nature of fraternity and cooperation
• Contrasts with liberals like Locke who believe human nature is suited to capitalism
• Beatrice Webb argues that a revolution to restore human nature to its true nature would make matters worse
• Violence would compound the damage inflicted by capitalism
• Contrasts with Marx and Engels who believed that violent revolution was inevitable
• Giddens, through structuration theory, argues that human nature is malleable and not fixed at birth
• Human nature is influenced by society and structures
• Contrasts with conservatives like Hobbes who believe human nature is flawed and fixed from birth