If you mean you were using the historical definitions, a social safety net is not a means of production. Government-run factories or mines would be socialist, although some purists insist that it’s not socialist until there’s no private ownership left at all.
If you mean you were using the popular definitions, sure, people like government services. Volt also likes government services.
Well yes, but you misjudged what I said as I used the correct terms.
So my point is again, there are many people that believe in socialist constructs, and are therefor partly socialist.
If you mean you were using the historical definitions, a social safety net is not a means of production. Government-run factories or mines would be socialist, although some purists insist that it’s not socialist until there’s no private ownership left at all.
If you mean you were using the popular definitions, sure, people like government services. Volt also likes government services.
Services fall under “Means of production”. So yes, these safety nets are part of socialism. Taxes going back to the people as well.
I don’t want to try and figure out the perfect semantics for all of this.
You’re right, it’s not worth it to argue about definitions any more.