[andrekandre]

thats a good point, probably people are colloquially using socialism to mean "the opposite of capitalism", but what it really is just one of many alternatives

on that usage then i think the proper wording for "the opposite of capitalism" would be something like non-capitalist (or even anti-capitalist maybe?)

(apologies for the depression)

[Synaesthesia]

Socialism can mean a lot of things. But originally it meant the control and management of society by workers, on a democratic basis, including the workplace.