Socialism and social democracy

The term "socialism", used from the 1830s onwards in FranceUnited Kingdom, was directly related to what was called the social question, in essence the problem that the emergence of competitive market societies did not create "liberty, equality and fraternity" for all citizens, requiring the intervention of politics and social reform to tackle social problems, injustices and grievances (a topic on which Jean-Jacques Rousseau discourses at length in his classic work The Social Contract). Originally the term "socialist" was often used interchangeably with "co-operative", "mutualist", "associationist" and "collectivist". and the

The term social democracy originally referred to the political project of extending democraticpopular sovereignty, the universal franchise and social ownership for the rule of a propertied class which had exclusive voting rights. forms of association to the whole of society, substituting