Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Appendix: The Mark. Preface: Karl Marx)

At the request of my friend Paul Lafargue ... I arranged three chapters of this book (Anti-Dühring) as a pamphlet which he translated and published in 1880 under the title: Socialisme utopique et Socialisme scientifique. From this French text a Polish and a Spanish edition were prepared. In 1883 our German friends brought out the pamphlet in the original language. Italian Russian Danish Dutch and Roumanian transla-tions based upon the German text have since been published. Thus the present English edition this little book circulates in 10 languages. I am not aware that any other Socialist work not even our Communist Manifesto of 1848 or Marxs Capital has been so often translated. In Germany it has had four editions of about 20000 cop-ies in all. [Frederick Engels: from the Preface to the 1892 English Edition]