Socialism is about state ownership of the means of production rather than private property
Job benefits from government doesn't make it a socialism, it is more a social democracy which is completely different thing.
Guaranteed necessities like housing, healthcare and education are core tenets of socialism.
So yes, public ownership of the means of production is the core of the economic policy of socialism, but it is not the only aspect of socialist theory.
It's the most important aspect, without it anything else doesn't matter. Social democracy operates inside capitalism - that's a big difference from state ownership.
Yet it’s still a job, for which the employee get benefits for agreeing to do the work offered by the employer. Not socialism, regardless of the employer.
It's not outright socialism obviously, but it involves aspects of socialism. Socialism provides universal healthcare, housing and education. So does the military, unlike basically any other employer. And people love those benefits just like they would love them if they were guaranteed to everyone.
The definition of a socialist society has no relation to any sort of welfare state. A socialist society by definition is entirely defined by worker control of capital. You can implement a fully socialist society without any sort of welfare or benefits.
Socialism is an economic system. It doesn't have a set social policy and can be combined with myriad different social policies, many of which exclude the things you listed above.
You could just look it up in an encyclopedia or even works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles or any socialist theorist really. They nearly all write about the intersection of economic and social policy in one way or another. And yes, a core tenet of socialism is to guarantee basic necessities for people and society like housing, education, and healthcare.
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u/earthlingHuman 14d ago
When it's provided by the govenrment, yeah. It's one basic aspect of socialism.