Why were socialist ideas not limited only to poverty relief?

Correct answer: They spoke of changing ownership of production and class relations.

The governing concept is socialism as a structural critique of capitalism and class inequality. Socialists argued that poverty was connected to ownership, production, exploitation, and unequal class relations, so society and the economy had to be reorganised rather than merely receiving charity. Option A is correct. B reduces socialism to relief, while C and D contradict its criticism of privilege and exploitation.