for enforcing the laws, and the Judicial branch, for judging those who have broken the law. The government is divided in this way to ensure a system of checks and balances and also to ensure that there not be one single supreme power making all decisions. Locke also had specialized roles for both the government and the people. He thought that the government should exist only to keep the country organized, to protect the natural rights of the people, including life and liberty, and to safeguard the property of the people. The role of the people according to Locke was simply that they labor and produce capital.
             When looking at some less fundamental concepts about Marxism and Democracy, it can be seen that they are very much alike. The first thing that they share is that they both arose from a common need for government. Like Marx, Locke wrote about democracy in order to eliminate oppression, which was seen everywhere. Thus, both forms of government were tailored to eliminate governmental oppression. Locke, when writing about this government, lived in an absolute monarchy, where all decisions are made by one man. In fact, Locke's first treatise on the ideal government was mainly a criticism of an essay, Patriarchia, which was in defense of divine monarchy. He no longer wanted to live with this oppression and thus wrote his theories of democracy. ( Landry )
             Marx came to a conclusion based on the premise that, since the bourgeoisie had more money and thus more power, this power would only oppress the working class. "In Marx's view, one class had always exploited the other." ( McKay, p785 ) Thus, a form of government was needed to eliminate this oppression. By giving the proletariat more power, he would have created an equal, balanced and perfect government.
             Both philosophies, Marxism and Democracy, have evolved through time. While it is true that Marx and Locke wanted the people to have the power in ...