Question

The New York Times reported that "The McDonald’s restaurants in Seminole County, Florida, and the Seminole County School Board have agreed to reward students for good grades and attendance during the 2007–9 academic year with [free] Happy Meals … Students in kindergarten through 5th grade can now receive a Happy Meal from a local McDonald’s restaurant as a ‘food prize’ for achievements like all As and Bs in academic subjects or two or fewer absences from school." Would Karl Marx welcome this initiative as a positive way to motivate children to do well in school?

Answer 1

I doubt that Karl Marx would agree or welcome this initiative to reward small children since he believed that individual rewards were not appropriate. instead, he believed in social or group rewards. Marx was a communist that believed in a complete equality, and that is probably his greatest mistake. We all have the same rights, but it depends on us to develop our potential. Our personal ambition is what makes us want to be better. Marx believed in a collective ambition of a better society and how it could improve everyone's lives.