2) Marx expresses his theory that all human beings naturally desire to do work and have a disgust for fable, however Nietzsche talks about the absurdity and danger in which Human beings work tirelessly and ignore their innate needs: what destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure – like a simple automaton of duty? This is the recipe for decadence, and no less for idiocy... (The Antichrist, sec. 11)This separation of opinions demonstrates how Marx's philosophy preaches solidarity among its audience, while Nietzsche's philosophy attempts to persuade his audience to solitude. Their difference in principles and views on human power is most likely due to the circumstances of the period or era they were writing their philosophies about and the respective audiences that came with the social and political conflicts of that particular
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