[headsonpikes]

"Calling the WOD a manifestation of 'socialism' does not make it so."

You're right; it's the idea that the sovereign state is best situated to manage the lives of its citizens for the benefit of all that makes it socialism.

[robertpaulsen]

Totalitarianism: #2. The political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority.

Socialism is different.