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== Dominion Lede == | |||
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== Overview 2010-01 == | |||
'''Scientific Socialism''' is the term used by [[Friedrich Engels]]<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm ''Frederick Engels'' - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. 1880] Full Text</ref> to describe the social-political-economic theory pioneered by [[Karl Marx]]. The purported reason why this socialism is "scientific socialism" (as opposed to "[[utopian socialism]]") is because its theories are held to an empirical standard, observations are essential to its development, and these can result in [[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions|changes]]/[[falsifiability|falsification]] of elements of theory. Although Marx denounced "utopian socialism", he never referred to his own ideas as "scientific socialism". | '''Scientific Socialism''' is the term used by [[Friedrich Engels]]<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm ''Frederick Engels'' - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. 1880] Full Text</ref> to describe the social-political-economic theory pioneered by [[Karl Marx]]. The purported reason why this socialism is "scientific socialism" (as opposed to "[[utopian socialism]]") is because its theories are held to an empirical standard, observations are essential to its development, and these can result in [[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions|changes]]/[[falsifiability|falsification]] of elements of theory. Although Marx denounced "utopian socialism", he never referred to his own ideas as "scientific socialism". | ||
