Today's government IS Socialism due to the fact that our current day military intertwines "Free Market" Capitalism with the need of the nation.
dear, socialism is when the govt owns private industries. A military is usually never privately owned so not thought of as an industry. In any case owning one industry, especially if it is a quasi industry like the military, would not be enough to say the govt is socialist .
Do you understand?
THOUSANDS businesses would go out of existence without our taxes feeding them via the military.
These vendors are de facto "owned" by the government.
Technicalities aside, this is Socialism.
But knee-jerk Conservatives always come up with technicalities to claim the high ground.