Certainly an element of victorian proto-socialism, chartism maybe too, included a healthy reach back into primitive christianity. It collided pretty heavily with the established anglican and catholic churches which were of course the legitemate inheritors of most of the land of the roman empire, post-fall. Carry that into the new world, they acquired lands and goods and importance, if not from romans.
The point of the socialism-communism arc is that why we want equitable distribution of goods and labour isn't the problem. The problem is how to achieve it. Owenite communities in the americas failed. It's hard to bootstrap.
The point of the socialism-communism arc is that why we want equitable distribution of goods and labour isn't the problem. The problem is how to achieve it. Owenite communities in the americas failed. It's hard to bootstrap.