Introduction

While I was still attempting to discover what aspect of Marx and Spencer I was to concentrate on for this short essay, a friend noted that Marx and Spencer were polar opposites; at first glance, I took this as true. However, I started thinking some more about their differences and found very little different between the two when the concepts were abstracted from the arguments' literal presentation. I will take a look at the conceptual differences between the two theories, and argue that either (a) Spencer was unclear about his version of utopia, or (b) they are similar theories leading towards the same type of utopian endpoint.