Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Interesting Facts

• The book is one of the key works where Engels explains the transition from utopian socialism to scientific socialism based on historical materialism.
• In his work, Engels critiques utopian socialists like Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Owen for their idealistic and unrealistic approaches to transforming society.
• In the book, Engels emphasizes the importance of class struggle as the driving force of historical development and asserts that only the proletariat can lead to a socialist revolution.
• Engels uses historical analysis to show how capitalism inevitably leads to its own destruction and creates the conditions for a socialist society.
• The book was based on a series of lectures Engels delivered between 1876 and 1878 and was first published in 1880.