![]() ![]() ![]() In three brisk chapters Engels deals first with the development of pre-Marxist socialist thought, then dialectical philosophy, which is central to the Marxist method, and finally historical materialism, the application of Marxist thought to the evolution of human society: the source of Marx’s and Engels’s revolutionary conclusions.Īs the very brief synopsis above suggests, this pamphlet is extremely rich in ideas and fully deserves several readings. ![]() Socialism: Utopian and Scientificcondenses some of the key ideas in Engels’s book into a concise and very accessible pamphlet, which remains to this day one of the best and most popular summaries of Marxist ideas ever produced. This pamphlet, first produced in French in 1880, is in fact a compilation of three chapters from Engels’s Anti-Duhring, a polemical work produced not only to combat the “new” socialist theories of Eugen Dühring but also, more importantly, “an encyclopedic survey of our conception of the philosophical, natural-science and historical problems” in Engels’s own words. We present here a reading guide to Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, which can help comrades digest the key ideas from this classic Marxist text by Friedrich Engels. ![]()
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