Marxism and Scientific Socialism

✍ Scribed by Thomas P.

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 182
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Engels declared at Marx's funeral in Highgate Cemetery that just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history. Scientific socialism was the term Engels used to describe Marx's socio-economic philosophy and many later theorists sought to reinforce Marxist theory with a supposedly scientific basis.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Preface: What’s in a word?......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
1 Marx and science......Page 24
2 Engels and “scientific socialism”......Page 50
3 The question of Darwin......Page 65
4 Scientific socialism on the ground......Page 83
5 Scientific socialism and dialectical materialism......Page 101
6 Althusser and the enchantment of science......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 143
Epilogue: Nature and artifice in Marx......Page 147
References......Page 167
Index......Page 177