I don't know how many times I will have to see this. It is not socialism. It is not "i.e. socialism." It is not kind of like socialism. It is not socialism. Socialism is not just some made up word for increased government interference in private markets. It is a synonym for communism, used interchangeably by Karl Marx in his Manifesto.

The New Oxford English Dictionary defines communism as:

  a political and economic theory of social organization that 
  advocates that the means of production, distribution, and 
  exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a   
  whole.
  • policy or practice based on this theory.
  • (in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between 
  the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of
  communism.

To those who would argue that the word has evolved in its definition: when a word gains multiple, easily confused, and mutually exclusive meanings it proceeds to acquire no meaning at all and does nothing but politicize, infantilize, and confuse a discussion.