Socialism as practiced also implies heavy centralized planning to mandate these arrangements and then set price floors and ceilings to set production capacity.
The Amish tend to reject social ownership of land so they are not socialist or communist by any means. Distributist would probably be the best description with any mention in the literature.
To be clear, I'm usually against large corporations as well, because of this very point. Especially, when they -- as in America and many other non-socialist states -- use their lobbying power to capture the market via regulation.
However, there still is a fundamental difference between centralized corporate planning and centralized planning by the monetary authority. Corporations have to deal with market supply/demand, and we've seen enough examples of large companies simply going bankrupt to rest assured that large corporations are not invincible.
Centralized planning is only a feature of certain forms of socialism. It's generally not a feature of democratic socialism or the various anarchist forms of socialism.
well, also the modern corporation. I think the centralized planning aspect is actual orthogonal to the resource distribution/means of production aspect
The Amish tend to reject social ownership of land so they are not socialist or communist by any means. Distributist would probably be the best description with any mention in the literature.