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Utopian Socialism (I)
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Why does Engels call Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Owen 'Utopian' despite treating them with real admiration?
A
Because their proposed reforms were technically impossible to build
B
Because, like the French philosophers before them, none of them represented the interests of the as-yet-undeveloped proletariat specifically—they sought to discover absolute truth for all humanity by pure intellect, treating the arrival of the right genius as a 'mere happy accident' rather than deriving their systems from the actual course of economic development
C
Because they were aristocrats with no real sympathy for workers
D
Because they rejected private property outright, which Engels considered premature
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