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This is the problem with definition creep. Socialism is the government owning the means of production and operating those means without profit so that all the profit is dispersed equally to all the workers. At some point when stupid people started talking about politics that became any government run program is socialist. Making the claim that socialism under the first definition is good because socialism under the second definition is good is just not logical.