Rousseau is regarded as a forerunner of modern Christian socialism.

On the whole, however, modern socialism tends to fall towards the Constructor wing.

Others believe that Kang was a bold and daring proto-Communist who advocated modern Western socialism and communism.

In his article on socialism, Paul Berman has astonishingly ignored the founder of modern socialism, except for a mysterious reference to the "texts by Karl Marx."

Mr Heseltine, the Environment Secretary, said the Labour rally had all the characteristics of modern socialism -'a vast arena built on the rates, losing money'.

Nietzsche aggressively attacked the granitic basis of Nazism ("nationalized socialism") in equally rejecting both modern nationalism and modern socialism as decadent "herd-animalizing" movements.

Robert Owen's contribution to modern socialism was his understanding that actions and characteristics of individuals were largely determined by the social environment they were raised in and exposed to.

Lenin states that Marx and Engels themselves, the very founders of modern scientific socialism, belonged to this bourgeois intelligentsia.

To which my answer is absolutely not - especially if you understand modern socialism too as a result of an Enlightenment view of the world.

I do not think it is fashionable any more to advertise modern socialism, here in the institutions of the European Union, fortunately, nobody talks about it any more.