Yeah, I probably should have said communism. I only said socialism because I thought it would be received as less of an insult. Anyway, thanks for listening.

Yeah, I probably should have said communism. I only said socialism because I thought it would be received as less of an insult. Anyway, thanks for listening. You could also argue that the source code was the means of production (of binaries, and then of work), which might be more accurate. I do not know much about Marx or the history of communism, but the focus on social concerns in the GPL is similar.