================= HES POSTING ================= In some of my old HETM lectures I found a margin note that the word "socialism" was coined by the French journalist Pierre Leroux in 1798. Unfortunately, I provided myself with no citation to such. Can anyone assess the veracity of this claim? I note that Brue (p. 180) indicates that the word "in the modern sense was first used in the Owenite Co-operative Magazine in 1827 to designate the followers of Owen's cooperative doctrines." Brian Eggleston Augustana College ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]