frederick engels socialism utopian and scientific

But to make it a power, the first condition was that the newly-conquered unity should not be imperiled. The Socialist party in Germany was fast becoming a power. This took place about the time when the two sections of the Socialist party in Germany – Eisenachers and Lassallians – had just effected their fusion, and thus obtained not only an immense increase of strength, but, what was more, the faculty of employing the whole of this strength against the common enemy.

As a matter of course, he fell foul of his predecessors above all, he honored Marx by pouring out upon him the full vials of his wrath. Dühring, privatdocent at Berlin University, suddenly and rather clamorously announced his conversion to Socialism, and presented the German public not only with an elaborate Socialist theory, but also with a complete practical plan for the reorganization of society. The present little book is, originally, a part of a larger whole. It includes the greater portion of the original work, omitting what is presented here, and also some of the personalities due to the heat of controversy.įrederick Engels is second only to Karl Marx among socialist writers, and his influence in the United States is only beginning. The translation is by Austin Lewis, and bears the title 'Landmarks of Scientific Socialism' (cloth, $1.00). Last year we published the first English version of the larger work to which the author refers in the opening page of his introduction. Our own sales of the book in America from 1900 to 1908 were not less than 30,000. It will be observed that the author in his introduction says that from 1883 to 1892, 20,000 copies of the book were sold in Germany. The many editions required by the growing demand have worn out the plates, and we are now reprinting it in more attractive form.

In 1900, when our publishing house had just begun the circulation of socialist books, we brought out the first American reprint of the authorized translation of this work. It has been translated into every language where capitalism prevails, and its circulation is more rapid than ever before. It ranks with the Communist Manifesto as one of the indispensable books for any one desiring to understand the modern socialist movement. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific needs no preface.

Frederick engels socialism utopian and scientific