Socialism in it's many morphs and various different class based conceptions
fleshes out rather compactly
iobviously quite conciously
socialism is an attempt by some class or other
to use the state to complete or to thwart
the necessary remaining world historical tasks of The bourgeois stage of class cloven social evolution
tasks that lead one way or another toward class cloven society's own sublation ... class-less society
Ie
it is a means by implementaion of legal force
to progress socially ie by other means then pure volitional private property based capitalism
In fact despite this intention
it is capitalism in other guises
capitalism pretending to be not itself
or not seeing itself for what it is or will become
capitalism
pretending or tricking itself in some cases
into thinking its being anti capitalism
...begging the big question...
this goes for any form of socialism other then the prole dictatorship form of socialism
which by exception as agent of the wage class might embody ...might ..
world historical measures that accelerate the trip time to communism
sum up
in the last analysis most socialism is simply or complexly capitalism by other means
means that in time come back around on themselves and become eventually
once again really the same means
such is clio's rubber railed road system
elastic but only finitely so