Marx's critique of the utopian socialists.
From: Utopian Studies
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Date: 3/22/2002
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Author: Paden, Roger
I. Introduction
BECAUSE MARX AND ENGELS used their critique of the "utopian socialists" as a means to develop and refine their own theories, an examination of it might play an important role in unraveling some of the complexities of these theories. Unfortunately, due in part to their seemingly ambiguous and changing attitude toward utopianism--which Steven Lukes once characterized as an "anti-utopian utopianism"--their critique is not entirely clear (Lukes 155). As a result, it ...
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