the gaps between the rich and the poor are tremendous, this leaves us to question just
how far-fetched these ideas might be. One of the struggles that all types of liberalism
face is the homeless and underprivileged. Since many of them can’t afford things such
as private property, Liberalist ideologies mean little to them. Meanwhile, communism
offers a much welcome solution to this financial instability, creating jobs for all, money
for all, and thus creating profit to keep the cycle going.
- While communism may seem like an ideal system, it also has it’s flaws. Mainly, in the
reliability of mankind. Source II illustrates clearly this fault. In the cartoon, the homeless
asks one individual for spare change. While he agrees to give him the change, he
reaches into another individuals pocket to get the money. In the end, this is justified in
the belief that everything is everyone’s, and that no single individual has the right to self
property that another does not. Again, this leads us to the reliability in mankind to
continually work for the benefit of all, rather then for him or her self. The trouble being,
that in this socialist society, it is clear that the man in the middle, (reaching into the
other’s pocket) does not, and clearly should not, care about another persons belongings
and value. This leads to the other individual questioning the fairness of this all,
wondering why it’s he that has to pay for the poor, and not the man who agreed to help
support the poor.
- The final source is strongly supporting the ideology of liberalism. It claims that all men
are started out as equal. So long as each man retains inside the law, and does not
venture outside it, is free to bring his craft, and his own money, into competition with
others in the same market, working on his own free will and, ideally, getting out of it
capital from as much work as he puts in. While this sounds to be a fair and realistic
system, it holds fundamental flaws for the underprivileged. For those that have not been
taught a skill, those who have not had the privilege to be educated, or even those
whose once sought after skill has since become defunct, it leaves them with no ability to
provide for themselves, and no way to compete with their fellow man. This inequality
then becomes a burden for the government, eventually rising to an extreme level of
unemployed and impoverished citizens. While the source competes that each individual
has a way to support themselves, (competition) it fails to address the flaws, and thus the
poor find ways outside of the regular system (the laws of justice) to make a living in the
system.
In the end, the sources connect in one fundamental way. Flaws. Each system in their
own has a flaw, one that will stop it from being a completely ideal system for each and
every class. In liberalism, there will always be the poor to beg from the rich. In socialism
and communism, the public will fail to see the incentive to work for the collective. The
common people, if given the freedom, will always be separated by classes and status.
