Could Jean-Jacques Rousseaus ideology be considered democratic socialism?
You could see it that way. I think that’s inaccurate – trying to make Rousseau into an advocate of ideas that weren’t really circulating in his life. But it is true that many democratic socialists have been admirers of Rousseau, and that some of his basic ideas, including trying to simultaneously have a strong regard for the rights of the individual and the needs of the community and the basic notion of a social contract, are upheld by many democratic socialists.
