Essay Plan: Human Nature

Question 1

Overall socialist view of human nature

Answer 1

Have a positive view of human nature and regard people as social creatures who are co-operative, sociable and rational
- Human behaviour is socially determined and people naturally prefer to work together rather than compete against each other - enables humans to form connections

Question 2

Revolutionary socialists

Answer 2

Marxists maintain that the true co-operative and communal instincts of humans can be liberated only by the removal of the exploitative and oppressive capitalist system and the creation of a communist society.

Question 3

Marx and Engels

Answer 3

View humans as essentially social beings, whose behaviour and potential are influenced more by nature than by nature.

Sociable, rational and co-operative, capable of leading satisfying lives based on fulfilling work, where the conditions for free creative production exist.