Types of socialism include a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production and organizational self-management of enterprises,
Charles Fourier, an influential early French socialist
Karl Marx, influential German socialist
Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution
Soldiers marching before a portrait of Stalin
According to different scholars, depending upon the scope and definition of the term "anarchism", the history of anarchism either dates to the emergence of ancient socio-political ideologies and relat
Diogenes of Sinope advocated anarchistic forms of society
The Storming of the Bastille inspired generations of anarchists
William Godwin, a founder of modern anarchist theory
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first self-described anarchist and founder of mutualism