Originally posted by REPOMAN@Apr 18 2006, 04:52 AM
As a bit of historical context, I believe that socialism was a common phrase and that Marx coined 'communism' to distinguish his ideas. I don't have a source for that though, so it may not be true.
The Communist Manifesto was originally going to be called 'The Socialist Manifesto', but at that point in time Marxism had barely any followers and when people talked about Socialism they were generally refering to Saint Simon or Fourier. Originally Communism refered to the Socialism of Cabet, but the Cabetist movement had, essentially, died by the time the Communist Manifesto was published and where it did exist, it existed in America (where Icaria, the Cabetist Commune, was founded).
"In reality, the difference is, that the savage lives within himself while social man lives outside himself and can only live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the feeling of his own existence only from the judgement of others concerning him."- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the workers themselves.”- Flora Tristan
"Both those on the East and those on the West should be clear with the fact that we are not moving away from our road that we beat the path for in '48. That is to say, that we have our own ways. We always bravely say what is right on this side and what is not, and what is right on the other side, and what is not. It should be clear to everyone that we cannot be an appendage to anybody's politics, that we have our own point of view and that we know the worth of what is right, and what is not right."- Josip Tito
