Do you consider yourself a Socialist?

[Vosem]

I do not consider myself to be a socialist (pretty obvious for anyone who knows me, online or in real life, I should think). It is my firm belief that capitalism will inevitably out-compete any world order based on socialism so long as at least one corner of the world continues to hold on to it, and that (absent a calamity so severe that long-distance travel becomes very difficult) capitalism can be replaced only by a system that is more effective at promoting values like "competition" and "entrepreneurship".

Does this mean I oppose redistribution? Not necessarily; inasmuch as redistribution can aid competition within a society, making people healthier, happier, and likelier to become entrepreneurs, it can be a fairly integral part of "capitalism". There should, indeed, be a welfare state to some extent that will prevent people from falling below certain minimums, because society as a whole is harmed when people do. Ideally, a welfare state would be designed in a way that disallows able-bodied, healthy people from resorting to parasitism (while providing for children, the elderly, and the sick) and in a way so as to make itself as obsolete as possible in the very long-term, when no one (or very, very few people) will need it, and it should be defined as fighting against poverty and misery, not inequality (which is not actually bad).

Sorry if that's a bit scattershot.