I recently heard "Anti-Duhring" by Engels being recommended for a "if you could read just the one thing" on Rev Left Radio podcast. it encompasses "Utopian and Scientific" while condensing a huge amount of Marx's Capital
the blurb would be that Engels was pestered for years to address the "theory" of a guy named Duhring who was against Marx's ideas and also had a sizable following. the people who were listening to Marx and Engels thought they needed to be discredited and finally got around to Engels enough to make him write "Anti-Duhring" which explains what communism is, why it is a valid philosophical framework and why Duhring was making a mockery of it with his ideas. this seems to have had the intended effect as Duhring-ism isn't a thing nowadays as far as I'm aware
I recently heard "Anti-Duhring" by Engels being recommended for a "if you could read just the one thing" on Rev Left Radio podcast. it encompasses "Utopian and Scientific" while condensing a huge amount of Marx's Capital
the blurb would be that Engels was pestered for years to address the "theory" of a guy named Duhring who was against Marx's ideas and also had a sizable following. the people who were listening to Marx and Engels thought they needed to be discredited and finally got around to Engels enough to make him write "Anti-Duhring" which explains what communism is, why it is a valid philosophical framework and why Duhring was making a mockery of it with his ideas. this seems to have had the intended effect as Duhring-ism isn't a thing nowadays as far as I'm aware
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/