Question

What is scientific socialism (communism)?

Answer 1

socialism associated chiefly with Marxians and based principally upon a belief that historical forces determine usually by violent means the achievement of socialist goals — compare utopian socialism.

Answer 2

Scientific socialism, made Marxist theory more rigid and deterministic than Marx had intended. Thus, Marx's historical materialism became a variant of philosophical materialism—i.e., the doctrine that only physical matter and its motions are real.