John Locke can best be represented in the modern political system by Wendell Berry. Berry is a modern activist, cultural critic, and writer. Wendell also delivered a speech at the University of Kentucky in 1968 regarding the Vietnam war and the draft that it created. During his speech, he stated "We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance freedom by subsidizing dictatorships, or to 'win the hearts and minds of the people' by poisoning their crops and burning their villages and confining them in concentration camps ... I would be against any war." These ideas are very similar to John Locke's in that Locke changed ' the way we think about ourselves and our relation to the world we live in, to God, nature, and society. '
Thomas Hobbes, on the other hand, can be represented by a different political leader, who is Micheal Hardt. Hardt is most famous for the co-authoring of the book Empire which is also known as the “Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century.” Micheal Hardt shares similar ideas with Thomas Hobbes through the use of his book Empire, in that Hobbes has a book, Leviathan, which does express resembling ideas to both Empire and The Communist Manifesto. The beliefs that are widely manifested are that people would give up their right to create a better society which has proven not to work in the past.
Thomas Hobbes, on the other hand, can be represented by a different political leader, who is Micheal Hardt. Hardt is most famous for the co-authoring of the book Empire which is also known as the “Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century.” Micheal Hardt shares similar ideas with Thomas Hobbes through the use of his book Empire, in that Hobbes has a book, Leviathan, which does express resembling ideas to both Empire and The Communist Manifesto. The beliefs that are widely manifested are that people would give up their right to create a better society which has proven not to work in the past.
