In his Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss argued that rather than being a traditional natural law theorist as usually thought, John Locke "deviated considerably from the traditional natural law teaching and followed the lead given by Hobbes". In contrast, John Dunn argued that the Hobbesian question is irrelevant to the political problem that Locke intended to tackle. In this essay, I intend to first examine the seeming opposition between the two camps. I argued that while the two sides seem to hold diametrically opposite conclusions about Locke's political philosophy in general, Locke's theoretical relationship with Hobbes in particular, they share the common basis of Hobbism in the sense that they both take for granted the main assumptions of Hobbism as they proceed with the comparison.