I think it's time to remind everyone what being a Socialist means broadly and/or generally, since we've been getting a lot of traffic from Holla Forums and B████crats lately and will probably get more once the Richard Wolff endorsement happens:
Socialism is a term which describes any individual, movement, or party which:
-advocates for workers owning their own means of production (AKA their workplace or tools of labor) and democratically distributing the yields of labor amongst themselves
-this goes for all workers regardless of gender or race
-in a "Statist" Socialism some type of government which safeguards this right of labor to control its own productive forces or in "Antistatist" Socialism (Such as the various strains of Anarchism or Libertarian Marxism) a Federated series of workers councils which meet on a regular basis to decide the affairs of their communes and/or co-ops
Yes I realize the Statist/Antistatist dichotomy has problems but this is meant to be a rough primer for newfags so please forgive my oversimplification here
Socialism stands in opposition to Capitalism wherein:
-the means of production are privately owned by individuals and/or corporations
-the government works ultimately to safeguard the right of private ownership and capital accumulation
-The accumulation of Capital is considered more important than the rights of workers and ultimately, whether directly or indirectly, the owner of the MoP decides the way society is run
When discussing Socialism (and in turn Communism which is a moneyless and stateless society in which anyone who performs labor is the one who has control over it and there is no private property (means of production) but personal property (your house, your toothbrush etc) still remains) whether you are criticizing or defending it please refer back to this thread
Of course Socialism is not:
-Keynesianism
-Liberalism
-Neoliberalism
-Nazism
-Fascism
-Social Democracy (this one is a bit debatable since most modern Social Democratic parties were founded by Marxists and in turn some people think there can be a return to an earlier form of Social Democracy which is Socialistic but I am personally in the camp that doubts this)
I hope this helps!