Scientific socialism
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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:
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. 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.
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".
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See also
- Anti-Duhring
- Project Cybersyn, a decentralized form of cybernetic planning in Chile that was operational from 1971 until 1973.
- OGAS, a proposed national computer network for economic planning in the Soviet Union.
- Social science, one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.
- Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the official ideology of the Chinese Communist Party
- Scientific Outlook on Development, a socio-economic concept of the Chinese Communist Party
- Scientific communism, the Soviet Union curriculum requirements for understanding Soviet orthodoxy on the subject.
- Science and technology in the Soviet Union
- Siad Barre, who called his mixture of Marxism-Leninism and Islam "scientific socialism".
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
- Socialist mode of production
- Why Socialism? - an article written by Albert Einstein which presented a critique of modern capitalism and advocated for a planned economy.
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