Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Friedrich Engels
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Marx and Engels in the French Revolution
Engels starts by basically looking at the socialist movements that came before Marx. He also makes a point to kind of contextualize what Marx and Engels are doing in the broader movement of philosophy and science at that time. And inside the French Revolution, you really saw these ideas start to be put into practice. The French Revolution was really a bourgeois revolution. It was not a proletarian revolution.
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