Socialism, utopian and scientific

by Friedrich Engels

English language

Published Oct. 10, 1989

ISBN:: 978-0-87348-579-1

(13 reviews)

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is a short book first published in 1880 by German-born socialist Friedrich Engels. The work was primarily extracted from a longer polemic work published in 1876, Anti-Dühring. It first appeared in the French language. The title Socialism: Utopian and Scientific was adopted for the first English edition — the tenth language in which the book appeared. Intended as a popularization of Marxist ideas for a working class readership, the book was one of the fundamental publications of the international socialist movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, selling tens of thousands of copies.

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5 stars

Throughout this year I've finally taken the plunge into reading Marxist theory and after reading some introductory and guided texts I decided to tackle this short read from Engels himself as it's been recommended to me as very understandable and approachable, as it's somewhat of a short primer on the principles of scientific socialism. I can definitely agree with that, reading this I've felt both that there's hope for me yet to attain enough understanding on subjects such as dialectics and historical materialism to follow a basic conversation on such things eventually (baby steps), and that I have yet much to learn. Still this is a great read, incredibly relevant and resonating despite having been published more than 140 years ago, and a very easy recommendation.