These are the two basic philosophers who exemplify the basic war of ideas we see all around us today. Rousseau has won the war in most of the world. Locke hangs on among a few die hards here in the US, primarily among the ordinary people who make this country work. Most of them haven’t read him, but they live him.
Their leaders by and large have sold their souls to Rousseau.
Before Locke there was nothing but tyranny and after Locke until our Revolution it was still so. But our Revolution brought forth the fire of freedom and liberty that spread through the Western and to some extant the Far Eastern world. But the forces of tyranny have not given up and have been progressively on the rise for the last hundred years and the hard won freedom and liberty are on the verge of being snuffed out.