The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. For as long as one class has ruled over another there has been people fighting to end the injustice.
Exactly when you can call that struggle socialism is a matter of definition but I reckon that socialism proper starts with the reaction to capitalist exploitation that arose in the first half of the 19th century. The world socialism in English dates back to at least 1822.
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. For as long as one class has ruled over another there has been people fighting to end the injustice.
Exactly when you can call that struggle socialism is a matter of definition but I reckon that socialism proper starts with the reaction to capitalist exploitation that arose in the first half of the 19th century. The world socialism in English dates back to at least 1822.