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To what extent was there Socialism before Marx? As an identifiable body of argument, socialism developed in Europe from the end of the eighteenth Century, almost as a response to Industrialisation. At its simplest it is a system in which the state controls the basic means of production. Through this process it is ble to the region produces what it needs and not what it desires, therefore associating itself with nationalism. Once its General character had been established, attempts were made to discover intellectual precedents, and by the 20th Century socialist arguments had been articulated all over the world. Its origins lie nonetheless in the three principle industrial nations of the eighteenth Century, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The main underlying principle of Socialism, this is Human Nature. 'Pessimism leads to order and a control but no trust while 'Optimism' leads to a lack of excessive control. Socialist theories differ from...

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