What is socialism?

[Rev. Rye]

Fundamentally, the way I have tended to understand socialism is that if you believe that people should at least try to maintain their equality, and that if you believe that the means of production should be given to those who actually work, and if you fundamentally believe that we really should give the people power, and not just in a token "vote every other year between two or three people whose ideologies may be either unsatisfying (like in America), indistinguishable (like in Britain), or both," way, you are a socialist.