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Excerpt from Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
The present little. Book is, originally, a part of a larger whole.'about 1875, Dr. E. Diihring, privat docent at Berlin University, suddenly and rather clamorously announced his conversion to Socialism, and presented the German public not only with an elaborate Socialist theory, but also with a complete practical plan for the reorganization of society. As a matter of course, he fell foul of his predecessors; above all, he honored Marx by pouring out upon him the full vials of his wrath.
This took place about the time when the two sec tions of the Socialist party in Germany - Eisenach ers and Lassallians - had just efi'ected their fusion, and thus obtained not only an immense increase of strength, but, what was more, the faculty of em ploying the whole of this strength against the com mon enemy. The Socialist party in Germany was fast becoming a power. But to make it a power, the first condition was that the newly-conquered unity 'should not be imperiled. And Dr. Diihring openly proceeded to form around himself a sect, the nucleus of a future separate party. It thus became necessary to take up the gauntlet thrown down to us, and to fight out the struggle whether we liked it or not.
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