[lit-ideas] Robert Owen's Communes
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:26:38 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 7/15/2013 12:56:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes:
And looking at oak trees I'm still grateful that trees can't walk. God
was good when he made that rule. The only difference in my life now is that
I'm a socialist. I've always believed in socialism, of course, but now
I'm a real live rooting-tooting socialist.
From online etymology:
'socialism'.
Only coined in 1832, a free translation from the Gallic, "socialisme"
(itself from "_social_
(http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=social&allowed_in_frame=0) e" (cfr.
'socialite') + _-ism_
(http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-ism&allowed_in_frame=0) . Cf.
socialist and 'socialite'.
Apparently 'socialist' (but not the cognate 'socialite') was first used in
reference to Robert Owen's
"communes" -- as he called them.
Robert Owen was born in Newtown, a small market town in _Montgomeryshire_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomeryshire) , _Mid Wales_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_Wales) , on 14 May 1771. He was the sixth of
seven
children. His father was coincidentally also named Robert Owen as well as four
of
his (Robert's) brothers.
Pierre Leroux, a Gallic idealistic social reformer and Saint-Simonian
publicist and 'public relations' person, expressly that he the originator of
the word "socialisme". "It cannot be Cicero, since 'socialismus' is not found
in his pulblic writings -- vide "Cicero and the Latin neologisms".
The word "socialism" (but not the body of beliefs) begins to be used in
French in the modern sense c.1835. The word 'socialite' is later in use.
Cheers,
Speranza
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