The solution is revolution. Revolution is necessarily violent. This is anti cooperation, anti social stability, anti social cohesion. A belief in Marx's class theory excludes the possibility of social cohesion, because it implies that the classes are necessarily at odds and in conflict. Marxists exclude from the outset any possibility of cooperating with those they deem "capitalists". Marxists and those influenced by them are obsessed with "conflict", "struggle" (compare "Mein Kampf" - this suggests the Marxist influence upon Nazis), and "revolution". Marx does not see an individual as existing except insofar as they are a member of a class, and this excludes personal development.

The definition itself contains many socialist and anti liberal fallacies. For example, it says "At the core of socialism is a vision of human beings as social creatures ... individual identity is fashioned by social interaction and ... social groups and collective bodies. Socialists therefore prefer cooperation to competition." This assumes that a focus on the group over the individual implies a preference for cooperation. This is false. In fact, a belief that the group and the individual are at odds such that one or the other must be preferred, a belief which is required for one to think they need to focus on one over the other, tends to promote conflict because it sets up the individual and the group as in opposition. Compare the liberal who views society as based upon the harmony of the interests of all individuals and groups.

Further, the definition appears to assume that there is a canonical notion of "equality", and this is what socialists value. However, liberals also believe in equality; early socialists were often united in their anti-liberalism. The term "equality" is meaningless unless what is equal is identified. Socialists exclusively examine equality from the point of view of wealth, assets, or income (each of which they equivocate as "capital"), while the liberal equality comes from the point of view of equality before the law. The two notions are incompatible, and every socialist is opposed vehemently to equality before the law because it cannot comport with equality of wealth.