24, 1833, is signed "A Socialist"; and in 1834 socialisme is opposed to individualism by P.Leroux in an article in the Revue Encyclopedique.
The word is used in the New Moral World, and from 1836 was applied to the Owenites.

See Dolleans, Robert Owen (1907), p.

305.] The first phase of socialism, what has been called its sentimental phase, was originated by Saint-Simon in France and Owen in England at about the same time; Marx was to bring it down from the clouds and make it a force in practical politics.

But both in its earlier and in its later forms the economical doctrines rest upon a theory of society depending on the assumption, however disguised, that social institutions have been solely responsible for the vice and misery which exist, and that institutions and laws can be so changed as to abolish misery and vice.

That is pure eighteenth century doctrine; and it passed from the revolutionary doctrinaires of that period to the constructive socialists of the nineteenth century.
Owen learned it probably from Godwin, and he did not disguise it.