If socialism was ever about one bug thing, it was the collective ownership of the means of production. What you have to keep in mind in such discussions is tha

If socialism was ever about one bug thing, it was the collective ownership of the means of production. What you have to keep in mind in such discussions is that political terms like that tend to have vastly different meaning to people from different backgrounds. One of the best known example of this is that the term "liberal" has a very different meaning in the US than it does in Europe. In a similar vein, "socialism" over here does not imply the collective ownership of the means of production. If that's what you want to articulate, you should use the term "communism" to be less ambiguous.