Note 563 — Chapter III · : THE ASSOCIATIVE SOCIALISTS

“I was the first to employ the term ‘socialism.’ It was a neologism then, but a very necessary term. I invented the word as an antithesis to ‘individualism.’” (Grève de Samarez, p. 288.) As a matter of fact, as far back as 1834 he had contributed an article entitled De l’Individualisme et du Socialisme to the Revue encyclopédique. The same word occurs in the same review in an article entitled Discours sur la Situation actuelle de l’Esprit humain, written two years before. See his complete works, vol. i, pp. 121, 161, 378. For a further account of Leroux see M. F. Thomas’s Pierre Leroux (1905), a somewhat dull but highly imaginative production.