As I understand, in #economic sense, socialist #government means at least the majority of the production means are "owned" by the gangsterment as a group.

#China and such are not even socialist anymore, much less #Communist that they call themselves.😂

The #Soviet empire and its satellites were socialist.

All #taxes are coerced, which socialism also requires, but that's not enough to be socialism; its just simple criminality of a protection racket - extortion, robbery and looting that monarchies have done since the beginning of the common "government" scam.