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I understand the intent behind the "combination" theory, but it's still inaccurate, and is presumably based upon some application of the textbook economic spectrum, which ranges from the "pure" laissez-faire economy to the "pure" command economy.
I'll give you that.
However, legitimate socialism requires collective ownership of the means of production.
Well, we can define that with a capital S, like how people define Marxist communism with a capital C.
Welfare programs, for example, promote macroeconomic stabilization and maintain the physical efficiency of the working class, thus sustaining capitalism.
I'm not sure I'd include welfare, but things like socialized highway systems have been a massive economic boom to capitalism. Our socialized military is one of the largest government outflows of cash into the private market. Several firms almost entirely live on contracts (as a percentage of EBIT) to provide services and goods to the military.