Early socialism defended bourgeois property rights against feudal wrongs

Evidence

As Marx and Engels made obvious in The Communist Manifesto (as polemicists, their intention was to emphasize their differences with those socialist traditions that had preceded them, not to identify with them), the socialism with which they were contemporaries was generally founded on the attempt to distinguish and preserve the rights of property (bourgeois) from the wrongs of property (feudalism). — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 287