It focuses on the materialist conception of history, which is based on an analysis over history, and concludes that communism naturally follows capitalism. The book explains that whereas utopian socialism is idealist, reflects the personal opinions of the authors and claims that society can be adapted based on these opinions, scientific socialism derives itself from reality. The book explains the differences between utopian socialism and scientific socialism, which Marxism considers itself to embody. It has been translated into every language where capitalism prevails, and its circulation is more rapid than ever before. It ranks with the Communist Manifesto as one of the indispensable books for any one desiring to understand the modern socialist movement. He was also a businessman, journalist and political activist, whose father was an owner of large textile factories in Salford (Lancashire, England) and Wuppertal, Germany).Socialism, Utopian and Scientific is a political science classic that needs no preface. Unfortunately, this still sounds like the Left today.įriedrich Engels, anglicised as Frederick Engels (1820 – 1895), was a German philosopher, merchant, economist, historian, political theorist and revolutionary socialist. The first chapter focuses on utopian socialist who tried to make reforms but ran up against roadblocks of the bourgeoisie, and since it was based on an unscientific view, it lead to a “mish-mash of critical statements, economic theories and pictures of future societies,” none of which had the momentum to implement their ideas. This book describes better then the Communist Manifesto, Marxist ideas the book was one of the fundamental publications of the international socialist movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of the establishment of large-scale capitalist industry and its social consequences. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific – Frederick Engelsīookdesign: Philippine Bordeaux Montrieux
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