Scientific and utopian

[Red Noob]

Could someone, in a nutshell, explain to me the difference between 'scientific' socialism/theories and 'utopian' socialism/theories?

I've mainly been going on what just sounds ridiculous and unpractical vs what makes sense. I'm sure there's some 'official' outlines though stated by Marx or one of those characters.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

"Scientific socialism" is the branch of socialism that has a concrete plan to achieve actual communist intentions while utopian socialism has no plans and is simply in a state of "being" without knowing how to reach their goals.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm

[Caj]

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/

Have you read this yet? Utopian socialism is the socialism that prevailed in the first half of the 19th century and lacked any sort of materialist understanding of society, history, the state, etc.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Also from M.I.A

http://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm#utopianism

[Red Noob]

Thanks for all of the informative posts comrades.

I had a feeling it was an easy explanation, I just didn't know of any resources to find an answer with.