id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-842 Socialism - Wikipedia .html text/html 43831 5269 59 Christian socialism was one of the founding threads of the British Labour Party and is claimed to begin with the uprising of Wat Tyler and John Ball in the 14th century CE.[89] After the French Revolution, activists and theorists such as François-Noël Babeuf, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Philippe Buonarroti and Auguste Blanqui influenced the early French labour and socialist movements.[90] In Britain, Thomas Paine proposed a detailed plan to tax property owners to pay for the needs of the poor in Agrarian Justice[91] while Charles Hall wrote The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States, denouncing capitalism's effects on the poor of his time.[92] This work influenced the utopian schemes of Thomas Spence.[93] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-842.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-842.txt