Just for peoples' information: Socialism is basically an economic system - not a political one. It means that the people own the means of production. If 100 people work in a shoe factory, instead of being at the effect of one owner, or a a couple of partners, the people who do the real work have a share of the company. I'm not a propagandist, but people who hear the word socialism and picture a grim totalitarian state have really been brainwashed. Seriously.