Old school socialists drew upon the thought of Marx and Engels for their critique of capitalism. This was primarily an economic doctrine, a product of that time, as workers’ conditions were poor relative to today, so there was an opportunity to push the idea of making a better life for the worker. Of course, what Marxism led to was the rule of the elites, seen in both the USSR and Maoist China. Ordinary people were even more oppressed. On the other hand, the vast productive capacity of capitalism did lift everyone, creating wealth that did trickle down. Western Marxists, despaired of seeing a revolution in the West, so began a cultural revolution, which was enormously successful. It involved taking over the universities, which is now complete. Then began the deconstruction of all the philosophies and policies that made the West what it is. That is going full speed ahead now.
Thus, as detailed below, socialism now is essentially the same as the Leftist doctrines of woke, mass immigration, Critical Race theory, enforced equity, multiculturalism and transgenderism; define it as the set of all this and put these brackets around the list of ideologies: { }. The revolution has taken place as solidly as it did in 1917 in Russia, and is now the dominant ideology. Expect to see all past institutions, including the primacy of the English language dismantled, as is occurring across the southern part of the US. Unless, there is a massive pushback, of course.