The history of democratic socialism can be traced back to 19th-century socialist thinkers across Europe and the Chartist movement in the United Kingdom, which somewhat differed in their goals but shared a common demand for democratic decision-making and public ownership of the means of production and viewed these as fundamental characteristics of the society they advocated for. From the late 19th to the early 20th century, democratic socialism was heavily influenced by the gradualist form of socialism promoted by the British Fabian Society and Eduard Bernstein's evolutionary socialism in Germany. - Source: Wikipedia
