![]() ![]() Later in 1880, Engels used the term "scientific socialism" to describe Marx's social-political-economic theory. ![]() In the 1844 book The Holy Family, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described the writings of the socialist, communist writers Théodore Dézamy and Jules Gay as truly "scientific". And just as the right of force and the right of artifice retreat before the steady advance of justice, and must finally be extinguished in equality, so the sovereignty of the will yields to the sovereignty of the reason, and must at last be lost in scientific socialism. Thus, in a given society, the authority of man over man is inversely proportional to the stage of intellectual development which that society has reached and the probable duration of that authority can be calculated from the more or less general desire for a true government, - that is, for a scientific government. Scientific socialism is a term which was coined in 1840 by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his book What is Property? to mean a society ruled by a scientific government, i.e., one whose sovereignty rests upon reason, rather than sheer will: ![]()
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