Analysis Of Engel's Socialism

Engels points out in his ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’ that, “man [will], more and more consciously, make his own history.” The significance of this remark is that it explains how socialism will change the way of human beings creating history. Based on Utopian Socialism, materialistic conception of history and Marx’s surplus value, Engels asserts that history develops because of class struggles through observing all the history, and develops scientific socialism. The remark points out that human beings are always try to make his own history but still develop according to a ‘hidden plan’. But only under socialism, man will make his own history consciously and freely.

Human beings can control and make their own history but still create

Hegel’s dialectics is proved by philosophy itself, but also proved by nature. The development of mankind is always changing and progressing. Therefore, the history of human beings is “the process of evolution of man himself.” Furthermore, Engels believes that one of the limitations of Hegel is that Hegel is an idealist but not materialist that restricts him to resolve the problem: how to reveal the ‘inner law’ of the world. But modern materialism will solve this problem. According to Engels, human beings are products of nature; similarly, human’s consciousness is a product of his brain, which means it is also a product of nature. Kain also states that Engels believes, “the very same laws govern nature, history, and human mind.” Engels thinks that the human’s mind is a product of nature according to materialism and that it will be explained as “molecular and chemical motions in the brain” in the future. Therefore, idealism is ridiculous according to Engels. “Modern materialism is essentially dialectic, ” which is totally different from the old mechanical materialism. In other words, he combines ‘conscious dialectics’ and ‘materialist conception of nature and history’ together to develop materialistic conception of history.

Based on the Utopians’ mode of thought and materialistic conception of history, Engels argues that, “all past history, with the exception

The means of productions become public property, however, not every one would like to work for public property. At last, the Great Leap Forward made some progression of modernization in China after civil war, but it resulted to a severe famine in China, and about 20 million people died in this famine. To some extent, Engel’s theory of socialism is correct, but in practice, it seems that Engels has a quite optimistic view of human nature. I think it is one of the reasons why people’s communes failed at that time.

In conclusion, Engels realizes that human beings are always desire to make their own history and control their own destiny. However, he believes that human beings are still develop according to ‘hidden plan.’ Only when do human beings reach socialism, human beings will get total freedom, which is also the final goal of socialism. It provides an admirable utopian future for human beings. Though in my opinion, it is a utopia because of what happened in China last century. But still, human beings will always try to control our own destiny. The point is human beings should always try to be