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PRINTED IN U.S.A.
SOCIALISM
UTOPIAN AND SCIENTIFIC
BY
FREDERICK ENGELS
TRANSLATED BY EDWARD AVELING
D.Sc., Fellow of University College, London
WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
CHICAGO
CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Socialism, Utopian and Scientific needs no preface. It ranks with theCommunist Manifesto as one of the indispensable books for any onedesiring to understand the modern socialist movement. It has beentranslated into every language where capitalism prevails, and itscirculation is more rapid than ever before.
In 1900, when our publishing house had just begun the circulation ofsocialist books, we brought out the first American reprint of theauthorized translation of this work. The many editions required by thegrowing demand have worn out the plates, and we are now reprinting itin more attractive form.
It will be observed that the author in his introduction says that from1883 to 1892, 20,000 copies of the book were sold in Germany. Our ownsales of the book in America from 1900 to 1908 were not less than30,000.
Last year we published the first English version of the larger work towhich the author refers in the opening page of his introduction. Thetranslation is by Austin Lewis, and bears [8]the title "Landmarks ofScientific Socialism" (cloth, $1.00). It includes the greater portionof the original work, omitting what is presented here, and also someof the personalities due to the heat of controversy.
Frederick Engels is second only to Karl Marx among socialist writers,and his influence in the United States is only beginning.
C.H.K.
June, 1908.
INTRODUCTION
The present little book is, originally, a part of a larger whole.About 1875, Dr. E. Dühring, privatdocent at Berlin University,suddenly and rather clamorously announced his conversion to Socialism,and presented the German public not only with an elaborate Socialisttheory, but also with a complete practical plan for the reorganizationof society. As a matter of course, he fell foul of his predecessors;above all, he honored Marx by pouring out upon him the full vials ofhis wrath.
This took place about the time when the two sections of the Socialistparty in Germany—Eisenachers and Lassallians—had just effected theirfusion, and thus obtained not only an immense increase of strength,but, what was more, the faculty of employing th