That many people failed to recognise the ubiquity of socialism in English political life was due to the mistaken belief that socialism was some utopia ‘spun from the humanity-intoxicated brains of various Frenchmen’.6 For both Toynbee and Webb, then, socialism could be English and even English Tories could be socialists.

(From the linked essay on John Stuart Mill, socialist.) This is providing more than I expected from an article about Ed Broadbent and the NDP. If people today are confused about what socialism means, apparently that hasn’t changed much since 150 years ago.