Concept
Scientific socialism
Overview
social-political-economic theory
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To accomplish this act of universal emancipation is the historical mission of the modern proletariat. To thoroughly comprehend the historical conditions and thus the very nature of this act, to impart to the now oppressed proletarian class a full knowledge of the conditions and of the meaning of the momentous act it is called upon to accomplish, this is the task of the theoretical expression of the proletarian…
Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
States what Scientific socialism is; the author is tied to Scientific socialism in the knowledge graph.
The solution of this problem is the crowning glory of the work of Marx. He sheds clear daylight in economic places where the earlier socialists no less than the bourgeois economists have groped in utter darkness. From his work dates the origin of scientific socialism. The solution is as follows.
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
The book is titled for Scientific socialism; the author is tied to Scientific socialism in the knowledge graph.
It is one of the principal merits of scientific Socialism to have discovered such a social power in the person of the proletariat, and to have shown that this class, growing with the growth of capitalism, can find its salvation only in Socialism; that it is being moved towards Socialism by its very position, and that the doctrine of Socialism in the presence of a capitalist society must necessarily become the…
Leon Trotsky, Our Revolution
Names Scientific socialism.
Philosophers who discussed Scientific socialism
Related ideas
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Karl Marx
- Leon Trotsky
- Sociology
- Marxism
- Materialism
- Political science
- Social science
- Socialism
- Society
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Reason
- Dialectical materialism
- Friedrich Engels
- Humanities
- Capitalism
- The Holy Family (book)
- Economics
Opposing perspectives
- Nelson Mandela
- Natural law
- Physicalism
- Utopian socialism
- Historical materialism
- Classical liberalism
- Trotskyism
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.