I guess the feel good definition is when a community of individuals pools their resources to help the disadvantaged. This sounds good but it is not the correct definition of socialism.
The true and correct definition is— socialism is a form of government where the government controls the three factors of production (LAND, LABOR, & CAPITAL) either in large measure or in toto. At best you are a serf and at worse you are a slave.
This is why Nobel Prize winner in economics, Friedrich Hayek, stated that Socialism is Slavery.
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