PHILOS 2G03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Engels: Friedrich Engels, Productive Forces, Utopian Socialism
20 Mar 2018
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Readings 4 friedrich engels: socialism utopian and scientific. The birth of the first modern socialist thought brought not only the changes in our modern politics but also new forms of art that promoted the views of the utopian socialism movement. Although any modern socialist movement can technically be called utopian, this term is today most often applied to the earliest socialists who lived during the early 19th century, where the name utopian negatively described their unrealistic ideas. Their views of utopian society were not always peaceful and consisted from rigidly conforming to the scientific method of creation of balanced society. Begins with the proposition that the production of the means to support human life is the basis of all social structure. In every society in history the manner in which wealth is distributed into classes is dependent upon what and how products are produced and how they"re exchanged.
