Throughout the history of the Western world various ideologies have proven so influential as to give rise to assorted "isms" that change society. Namely, the rise and support of socialism has been a major component to the make up of Western history in the 19th and 20th centuries. An investigation into the development of socialism will prove that its popularity, support and even criticism came as a result of certain milestones. These milestones serve as turning points in the ideology's history, and without them it could easily be presumed that the philosophy would never have produced such influential results. In addition, such an investigation will prove these milestones were joined with various interactions between the philosophers and the political reality of assorted nations. This interaction proved to be the roots that allowed socialism to bloom into its entirety.
             There were various events in Western history that inspired discontent with the current government structure. This discontent dated all the way back to the late 1700's when political theorists like Edmund Burke tried to promote the monarchies in the Restoration era: "In Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke said that...the belief in human equality undermined the social order.... No matter how poorly the French monarchy and its institutions had served the nation, they should be preserved..." (Western Civilization, 742). Burke's application of conservatism, the challenger of socialism, promoted the survival of monarchies. This fueled the philosophers of socialism to take tangible actions in politics against the government: to protest, to start movements and societies, and to evolve their beliefs into a true ideology. Basically these actions paved the path for the upcoming response to the rise of industrialization.
             This rise of industrialization in the beginning of the 19th century marked the arrival of the first milest...