Descriptions of Communism by Scientific Socialists

[heiss93]

I've recently been reading some works about Utopia and the utopian socialist tradition. To my knowledge the Bolsheviks were not entirely opposed to utopian literature, in the sense that Marx's main objection to the utopians was their failure to recognize class war, and the need for revolution. Although he did strongly condemn equalizing leveling, and impractical agrarianism. But on the other hand many rank and file Bolsheviks looked more to utopia and science fiction literature rather than the Marxist classics.

Can anyone recommend passages on Communism from the scientific socialist tradion IE Marx, Engels, Plekhanov, Kautsky, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky, Bukharin, Stalin, Mao etc

Kautsky wrote the introduction to a utopian work, saying that worker socialists needed to know what they were fighting for. Bogdhanov's Red Star was an excellent Bolshevik scifi utopia.

Kang Youwei's Great Harmony is an interesting early 20th century Chinese utopia.

Some works I know of are German Ideology, Gotha Program, State and Revolution.

I believe that there are certain sections of Kapital that discuss Communism, but I'm not sure where.

William Z. Foster was one of the few Marxists, to write a detailed outline of what Communism would look like in his description of the United Soviet States of America.

[Outinleftfield]

They probably read more utopia and science fiction because its entertainment. Just like people are more likely to read something fictional about the revolutionary war or civil war or some fictionalized future version of America than to read anything written by the "founding fathers".