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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Friedrich Engels
Red Menace
The Relationship Between History and Theory
Engels condemns utopians for having a universal theory of truth grounded not in history but their own subjectivity. But he also is noting that there's useful things that they're realizing from the historical events which are going on around them, and that sets a progression later on for Marxism to take up. The other thing that I think is interesting with the text is also that it's sort of the emergence of the proletariat as a class. That then allows Marx to make a theoretical recognition of the role of the proletariat and the role of surplus labor.
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