The term for a system in motion without qualitative attributes is a machine. That is what Socialism really wants. When the Chinese brainwash people, what they are really trying to do is reprogram them. Socialism is an effort to turn everyone into machines, and where the ability to download ideas on command would be desireable.
The whole thing is about power, which is the only theme that matters. Why there are still fools who believe otherwise is beyond me.
I will add, more or less parenthetically, that I have precise definitions for Socialism, Communism and the like, but am not always as careful as I could be in applying them. Practically, though, I view it as one tangled, interconnected mess. The actual city of Los Angeles ends somewhere, and some other town starts, but I’ll be damned if I could ever tell where it was.