The big emphasis of socialists is usually to influence governments to force everyone to be equal. Either they do this through the ballot or the bullet. Socialists like George Bernard Shaw and the hugely influential H.G. Wells who wrote many socialist books like A Modern Utopia in 1905 are well meaning, but don't realize they are ultimately using the force of government to make people do as they wish. America has become a welfare state because of this.
Revolutionary socialists call themselves communists.
Marx and Engels wrote in the diabolical Communist Manifesto that only massive force against the rich would bring a world where there are no gaps between rich and poor. There is a Cain and Abel split between Communism and Capitalism. The Soviet utopia was a nightmare as Alexander Solshenitsyn writes. Anti-socialists like Von Mises, Hayek and Milton Friedman write eloquently and logically for free enterprise and dissect socialism and show it to be intellectually and morally bankrupt, but many listen to the siren of socialists who talk of a world of peace. Capitalists have failed to give a vision of an ideal world like the Socialists.