A good percentage of early socialist thinking seemed to be in response to the more individualistic thinking that was coming to dominate economic and philosophical circles around the early to mid 1800s. Indeed, the guiding principles of the socialist movement seemed to be fairness and community; early socialists such as Louis Blanc championed the idea of Universal Suffrage, or at the very least, Suffrage for all men, regardless of economic status. In addition, Blanc fought heavily for an end to the wild and extreme differences in wages received by people of France. He is the first thinker to whom the invention of actual term ‘capitalism’ is attributed, though he was speaking not of modern free market capitalism but simply the idea of refusal
