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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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Is historical materialism actually a science? Explain your reasoning.
Choose a current event in sociopolitical-economics and analyze it through a historical materialist lens. Use Socialism: Utopian and Scientific as your primary theoretical resource.
Argue for or against Engels’s embrace of scientific socialism over utopian socialism.
Describe Engels’s relationship to utopianism. What did he think of utopianism? What utopian elements are detectable in his work, if any?
What role does the Hegelian dialectical method play in historical materialist analysis?
Postmodernists often critique Marxist theory for its reliance upon “grand narratives.” Does Socialism: Utopian and Scientific present a grand theory of history? Explain your reasoning.
Describe the role of German national identity in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. While doing so, also consider the role of other European countries’ identities as well.
Why are metaphysics important to Engels’s sociopolitical and socioeconomic analysis? Why are they important to exploring the relationship between utopian and scientific socialism?
Why is the French Revolution important to Socialism: Utopian and Scientific? What role does it play in this text?
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