Hobbes thought we tend toward individuation (a kind of war/conflict, but not between classes, as with Marx) that needs to be tamed by the state in order to survive together (as a group).
Rousseau thought we tend toward cooperation (as simple barbarians, not as law-followers) that needs to be tamed by the state in order to survive as an individual.
Locke thought we naturally follow laws of nature to maintain a natural cooperation… & that it is unnatural to violate that.
Kant (& Socrates… if The Republic is correctly decoded) thought we have both competing inside us by design, and ultimately, the only way we thrive as a group, without losing (but instead developing) individuality, is if every individual is self-ruled in a way that takes all particular others into consideration, without the imposition of a state with which they are not actually aligned. The state merely helps streamline self-rule of that sort.
As you can see… we are wobbling off into oblivion little by little every time we lose focus on self=other, us=them. Unevenly/unequally yoked — but — WHO is actually the Strong who will tear the whole system apart just by ceasing to labor in vain?