what the fuck are you reading from?

Socialism is an economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy,and a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to cooperative enterprises, common ownership, direct public ownership or autonomous state enterprises.There are many varieties of socialism and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them.They differ in the type of social ownership they advocate, the degree to which they rely on markets or planning, how management is to be organised within productive institutions, and the role of the state in constructing socialism. [link to en.wikipedia.org]