Scientific socialism

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Scientific socialism in Marxism is the application of historical materialism to the development of socialism, as not a practical and achievable outcome of historical processes, but what Marxists who ascribe to this there believe is the only possible outcome. "Scientific" socialism contrasts with utopian socialism by being based upon what Marxists believe was material conditions instead of abstract ideas. Fredrich Engels described scientific socialism as "the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange. They are to be sought, not in the philosophy, but in the economics of each particular epoch." Fredrich Engels, who developed it alongside Karl Marx, described: To accomplish this act of universal emancipation [proletarian revolution and communism] is the historical mission of the modern proletariat. To thoroughly comprehend...

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