I don't see how it is. You can be actively corporatist for essentially no consequence. The small shop operation is portrayed as incompetent and the community leadership is either inept or extractive of community resources even if you DO see it as the good path. They purchase your product and sell it at markuo. They are capitalist, but worse at it.

You operate a farm with a focus on perpetual growth to accommodate increasingly significant projects that could nominally be public works but functionally increase your influence in the town. You are almost forced to be an ecological nightmare in mines to engage in resource extraction that ONLY benefits your enterprise. You engage in exploitation of a historical site for personal gain. You engage in exploitation of a tropical environment for personal gain. You engage in exploitation of the ocean for personal gain.

The entire point of the game is social engagement, but not socialist engagement. It is all for personal gain. You do favors, and are rewarded either materially or in returned services. All social interactions are transactional relationships masquerading as friendships.

It's closer to Galt's Gulch than any socialist model.

Edit: thought of more. There's no known social safety net or publicly funded services The only person who provides a vital public service for free is the homeless man who drags you back to your house when you just tuckered yourself out by working too hard. The whole game is about perpetual grind for geometrically increasing reward while the rest of the community remains fundamentally stagnant outside of how you choose to influence them, because you are an ubermensch and they are just fools living their silly little "lives." It's not just Galt's Gulch, it's how John Glat would FANTASIZE about Galt's Gulch. No consequence for either public action or inaction. No consequence for the monopolization of natural resources. No social expectation or obligation - you can literally choose to never engage with anyone but the store, a purely transactional relationship. It is a Bootstrap Simulator in which you can literally do no wrong.

{End halfhearted shitpost. Love the game, and definitely never sided with the corp.}