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. This
book explains the development of the idea of scientific socialism
through the 19th and 20th century from its origins in Engels to its
last manifestation in the work of Althusser. It provides a detailed
analysis of Engel's own conceptualisation, the impact of Darwin,
the relationship to the 'official' historical materialism of the
Soviet states and later reformulations by Althusser and others. In
so doing it provides a vivid intellectual history of Marxist and
socialist thought, exploring its significant insights as well its
manifest failures. Marxism and Scientific Socialism will be of
particular interest to those with an interest in the development of
Marxism and socialism, political ideologies and the history of
Western political thought.
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