Both Marx and Freud see something fundamentally inhuman in the character of modern civilization, especially in relation to the demands civilization makes upon the individual. Despite the differences in their proposed solutions to this conflict (Marx sees hope for a truly human civilization in communistic revolution while Freud views the conflict between human nature and human society as inevitable and preaches resignation and surrender to the way things are) there are strong parallels in their critiques. In a couple pages explore the similarities between Marx and Freud’s indictments of modern civilization—what is the essential nature of “man” and what about human culture, as we know it, runs counter to that nature?