I have come to the conclusion recently that the word socailism has recently undergone a big evolution, back in the day socialism was middle bit between a country turning communist from a capitilist system, in more modern times a socailist (or at least in the uk) was a left winger but not someone looking to change to a communist state.

Recently socialism has spread to cover the entire political spectrum, you can be a nazi, a communist or a democrat and you come under the huge umbrella of socialism (thinking about it as just a straight line left to right then everyone is a socailist)

So i am intrested in your definition of socailism, i feel a few people just label whoever they disagree with as a socialist, which is obviously incorrect.