If people want to define socialism around Soviet Russia, I've got some bad news for them. America is disaggregated Stalinism. If you've ever been involved in any kind of director+ level business shit, especially the finance side, you know what I mean.
A fractal hierarchy of dudes in suits, metrics are the entire bureacracy's collective fever dream so they're simultaneously infinitely malleable and infinitely unassailable, no individual can step in and say "this is bullshit," abstractions leaking like sieves, bullshit magnifying its way up the corporate ladder like mercury in fish, so at the VP/three-letter level they're completely divorced from anything resembling reality and just drone strike you with random nonsense demands to justify their salary. The American bureacracy is textbook Stalinism, metastasized from the state apparatus into basically every aspect of human life.
Governments are terrible at mostly everything (in theory I think a government should be better than anarchism at something like controlling a pandemic, but in practice...) but in the current framework government is a fixed quantity. Corporations are an extension of the government and have all the same problems so taking functions away from the de jure state does not reduce the level of government, only move it around. That's why ancaps are morons.
Weird situation right now where this post would've fit in the current line of discussion in the COVID thread and the Ameripol thread, but I'll leave it here.