Socialism: Utopian, Scientific

In my opinion, this is a better introduction to Marxism than the Communist Manifesto. The first chapter focuses on utopian socialist who tried to make reforms but ran up against roadblocks of the bourgeoisie, and since it was based on an unscientific view, it lead to a "mish-mash of critical stateme......more

Most accessible of the original Marxist works? The Good: --I read this early on, prior to reading Marx's monumental Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1. Engels did his job to prepare the reader. --“Marxism” just points to “go read Marx”; “scientific socialism” is more descriptive, but a......more

I recently started a personal project of reading Marxist theory (something I hope to delve deeply into in 2021, despite it being a busy year for me) and Socialism : Utopian and Scientific is one of the necessary preliminary texts. Now, I didn't want to jump directly into Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical......more

It's socio-economic philosophy, not a science. I'm not a socialist or Marxist and don't wholesale subscribe to the political-economic theory and model of socialism or communism. Having said that, there is tons of value in reading Marxists texts from Marx and Engels and others because they contain a l......more