You're correct, and I probably should have had big air quotes or whatever around that term. Upthread is strong with hyperbole from an American perspective, and

You're correct, and I probably should have had big air quotes or whatever around that term. Upthread is strong with hyperbole from an American perspective, and that "neo-" is just to distinguish having strong governmental social programs/services/safety nets (often caricatured as "socialism" from both the right and the left) from old-school destructive actual Socialism.