Unfortunately, pretty much nobody agrees on what socialism means, exactly. Even avowed socialists will sharply disagree on what forms of government 'count as so

Unfortunately, pretty much nobody agrees on what socialism means, exactly. Even avowed socialists will sharply disagree on what forms of government 'count as socialism'. For example: was the USSR socialist? That's the common understanding, but plenty of socialists disagree, arguing that socialism means that workers own the means of production, and that in the USSR, workers didn't really own the factories, not in any meaningful sense, since at the end of the day they were under central government control.