The collective resources of a country should belong to its people. The public treasury should not just be a slush fund for the rich.

The first sentence is socialism. ❤️

Not necessarily. Greedy people can misuse socialism as well as capitalism; a fairytale version of socialism some people are throwing around isn’t that helpful. It’s not so much socialism versus capitalism as it is institutionalized greed versus institutionalized ethical restraint

Wrongly defining a term that has been demonized and used as a weapon against those who identify with it is whats really unhelpful.

Not even sure where we are in this conversation...?

It was a general statement or more a plea that more rigor should be used when extracting a definition from socialism because history hasn't treated the idea of socialism and the people who identify as socialist in the fairest of ways.