One of the fundamental publications of the international socialist movement at the end of the 19th century
From utopian socialism to scientific socialism consists of three chapters that Engels extracted from his Anti-Dühring, in order to offer workers a popular exposition of the Marxist doctrine as a whole conception. In it, Engels manages to explain in a simple way the genesis of dialectical materialism and how from the material conditions of the capitalist system arises the possibility of building a classless society, that is, socialism, which evolved from the utopian approaches of Owens, Fourier and Saint-Simon, to scientific socialism centered on the materialist conception of history, which predicts the necessary advent of socialism from the internal contradictions of the capitalist mode of production.

First published in France (translation by Paul Lafargue, 1880) under the title Socialisme utopique et socialisme scientifique, this pamphlet was published in Germany in 1882, and was translated into ten other languages. Due to its informative nature and its short length, it is one of the most widely disseminated texts of the founders of Marxism.