Not actually correct. A country is like a household. We The People own the house, but to manage it we hire staff. The way we pay that staff and have them manage money for the household is by setting aside a portion that is earmarked for them to use on our behalf — aka, taxes. Government officials being paid by taxes or customs is not socialism. It’s paying our servants.
If you’re an anarchist (to wit, no governmental authority or control whatsoever and letting people do as they please) who is going to force the property owners to give up private property or business owners to give up the means of production to the workers?
It might interest you to know that Marx didn’t care about workers and saw them only as a means to an end: that end being to set himself up as the world ruler.
