Both Mary Wollstonecraft and Karl Marx developed ideas about the way
society is formed and the way it should be formed and
both did so in economic and social terms. The paper shows that there are considerable differences between the views they take on these topics. Each wanted to change
society and each examined the nature of their society and determined what sorts of developments should be taken in the future. The paper examines Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) and Karl Marx's class theory.