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HES: QUERY -- origin of "socialism"
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[log in to unmask] (James Aune)
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Fri Mar 31 17:19:00 2006
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================= HES POSTING ================= 
 
According to Raymond Williams in *Keywords* the earliest use in English is 
by Hazlitt in 1826, who refers to Aquinas and Duns Scotus (!) as "those 
profound and redoubted socialists."  An Owenite Magazine uses it in the 
later conventional sense in 1827, and the first French use politically is 
in 1833.  The 1848 Webster's Dictionary defined "socialism" as "a new term 
for agrarianism." 
 
Jim Aune 
 
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