Foundational Tenets and Normative Assumptions of Pre-Marxist Socialist Theory: Conceptions of Class, Property, and Social Justice Introduction Pre-Marxist socialism emerged as a critical response to the social dislocations and moral anxieties generated by the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalist modes of production in 18th and early 19th-century Europe. Before Karl Marx's scientific socialism, … Continue reading What are the foundational tenets and normative assumptions of pre-Marxist socialist theory, and how did these early socialist thinkers conceptualize class, property, and social justice prior to the emergence of historical materialism?