Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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The book has been an enormously popular book, and enjoys a level of prestige that ranks it alongside The Communist Manifesto. It explores the difference between early socialists (considered utopian) and the modern scientific socialists embodied in Karl Marx.
The book explains the differences between utopian socialism and scientific socialism, which Marxism considers itself to embody. 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. It focuses on the materialist conception of history, which is based on an analysis over history, and concludes that communism naturally follows capitalism.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (2 Jun. 2021), Sanage Publishing House |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 3640 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 96 pages |
| Page numbers source ISBN | 8826435359 |
by Sam
Printed on demand. Not a proper book no introduction, just a pdf with a cover. terrible
by trippy64
Wonderful book, promptly received – thank you!!! ????
by rgkd52
Useful to understand what this man was actually saying and intended and was up to
And so many tens of millions have suffered torture and died or been murdered since as a result
by Ethan Wood
essential reading but the actual quality Of the big was a slight letdown, although can’t really complain for the prixe
by Teymour Gray
Really poor edition of a great book.
Just a printout, not really a book.
by Amazon Customer
As described, thanks
by Sam
This print has no page numbers and looks like its been made using printer paper? The formatting is awful, paragraphs aren’t indented and instead actually have a space in between them which is not nice to look at and pretty wasteful. There is also no title, author or anything on the spine of the book meaning that it is hard to identify if you put it on your bookshelf.
This honestly looks like someone copy and pasted the raw text of the book into a word document, printed it out and then bound it
by Rowland Nelken
Engels had decided, in the 1840s, that the emerging science of economics demonstrated, beyond doubt, that capitalism was doomed and proletarian triumph inevitable. Events refused to conform to Marx and Engels’ predictions but the two held firm to the faith as the decades passed.
In this book, Engels gives a critique of the well meaning, but misguided, efforts of Proudhon, Saint- Simon and Robert Owen. They had not discovered the magic (sorry, scientific) concept of ‘surplus value’, the price of a product which was in excess of its worth as computed by the hours of paid labour.
In the ensuing 130 years, the computation of a ‘fair price’ has proved an elusive quest. Reading Engels’ lucid prose, with the benefit of hindsight, elicits both smiles at the naivete, as well as shudders of horror at the awful events that transpired in the 20th century, when so many leaders throughout the world were convinced that the muddled notions of Marx and Engels were gospel truth.