Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

This short work, written in the 1870s by the cofounder, along with Karl Marx, of the modern communist workers movement, explains how utopian socialism emerged in the early 19th century as a response to the horrors of capitalism. It tells how socialism was put on a scientific basis by Marx and Engels as the theoretical expression of the working-class movement in its revolutionary fight to overthrow the rule of capital and conquer state power.