Saint-Simon, Owen, and Fourier were labeled "fantastical socialists" by Marx Engels. This book looks at whether these three men were really fantastical socialists.

As stated in the book introduction above, this is a stimulating work that provides an insight into its reality, which is "neither fanciful nor socialist".

The Anti-Dühring Theory has been highly regarded as an important commentary on Marxism. Marx's writings, especially "Capitalism," were too vast and difficult to understand. This book was published as an easy-to-understand explanation of Marxism, extracting the essence of such a book.

Indeed, the book is easy to read.

It is immeasurable how much the existence of the "Anti-Duhring Theory," with such an easy-to-understand and dramatic narrative in contrast to the ultra-obscure "Capitalism," has helped propagate Marxism.

This book was written about 90 years before Marx wrote Capital. Naturally, Marx had also read the works of Adam Smith.

Marx is often thought of as the creator of original theories on capital and famous terms such as "surplus value," but I learned that he did not suddenly come up with "a new theory that no one in history had ever thought of before," but that these are ideas that he arrived at through the course of the history of economics. I was able to learn that he did not suddenly come up with a new theory that no one in history had ever thought of.

This work is a reference work on Scottish economist Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations.

Adam Smith is famous for "The Invisible Hand of God.

However, the greatest benefit of this book is that this "invisible hand" is misunderstood in the common understanding.

What did Adam Smith really want to say in his "The Wealth of Nations"? That is what we will be looking at closely in this book.