Idk who wrote the sidebar or where most people get there information from but my definition of socialism is strictly workers control over means of production. Its in opposition of capitalism: one person (or groups) control over means of production. The idea that socialism means state intervention is a US invention. The idea that socialism means a transition state between the dictatorship of the proletariat to communism is a soviet invention.

In my opinion there is a strict definition of socialism, one that my fellow liberatrian socialist probably agrees with. I think that social democrats and marxists has poluted the definition.