There's also a lot of quite socialist stuff in the old testament as well.
I'm not sure about Marx inventing Socialism I think he more refined Socialist economic understanding. After all way back to the socialist urges during early agriculture the general principal of "I should be paid according to the value of work i'm doing" and "we should hold things in common" can be found.
Marx certainly didn't invent socialism or 19th century socialism or even communism; he was a critical scientific examiner of capitalism and a communist, who was able to criticize other socialist positions for being weak and insufficient in actually changing capitalism, and then went beyond others before in specifics critiquing political economy.
There's also a lot of quite socialist stuff in the old testament as well.
I'm not sure about Marx inventing Socialism I think he more refined Socialist economic understanding. After all way back to the socialist urges during early agriculture the general principal of "I should be paid according to the value of work i'm doing" and "we should hold things in common" can be found.
Marx certainly didn't invent socialism or 19th century socialism or even communism; he was a critical scientific examiner of capitalism and a communist, who was able to criticize other socialist positions for being weak and insufficient in actually changing capitalism, and then went beyond others before in specifics critiquing political economy.