Early socialist thought did not negate but predated industrial capitalism.

Evidence

To accept the notion, so frequently put forth, that early socialist thought was the ideological and theoretical negation of capitalist society (industrial capitalism during the stages of competitive and monopoly capitalism) is to presume a historical relationship that is not in evidence. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 289

Categorization

• QUESTION: This overturns the standard lineage in which capitalist exploitation births socialism; worth verifying the supporting historians (Morelly, etc.) and their dates relative to industrialism.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s historical contingency implies socialism’s failure is not final. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 578