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Who was Frederick Engels?
Frederick Engels was a German philosopher who is most famously known for his contributions to the Communist ideology, especially with regards to his contributions to the Communist Manifesto as well as the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. However, he also authored several other works such as Dialectics of Nature and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. -
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
This work explained that Utopian Socialism ( socialism achieved by peaceful means) was based on noble ideals and personal opinions and not facts. It sought to explain the path to a communist society from a scientific perspective by using the scientific method (therefor making socialism scientific) to explain why and how a communist society would eventually prevail over the capitalist society of the era - but that in order to do so a revolution was needed. -
Dialetics of Nature
Since Marxism believes that scientific activities depend the changing needs of society there is a need to study not only politics and economics but scientific research as well. This work was an attempt to discuss the knowledge and advancement of science at the time from a communist perspective and covered topics such as the biology, chemistry, the history of science, and mathematics among many others. -
Scientific Socialism
Scientific Socialism as described by Engels was a way to describe his and Marx’s theory on the development of an economically, politically, and socially communist society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TouhDIEnYs
