However, as a result of their broad definitions, the Big Five personality traits are not nearly as powerful in predicting and explaining actual behavior as are the more numerous lower-level, specific traits.
The history of socialism has its origins in the French Revolution of 1789 and the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, although it has precedents in earlier movements and ideas.
History of Socialism Back to Top Certain elements of socialist thought long predate the socialist ideology that emerged in the first half of the 19th Century. For example, Plato's The Republic and Sir Thomas More's Utopia, dating from 1516, have been cited as including Socialist or Communist ideas.