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Jean-Jacques Rousseau He was a philosopher whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of both liberal and socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. Rousseau saw a fundamental divide between society and human nature. Rousseau contended that man was neither inherently good nor bad when in the state of nature (the state of all other animals, and the condition humankind was in before the creation of civilization and society), but is corrupted by society. Karl Marx/Communism Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless (Everyone was equal and c