There is no doubt that people who identify as democratic socialists are making large gains in the Democratic Party. (After all, both countries have private capital markets and privately-owned capital). There are two terms that come up regularly in the democratic socialist jargon, one being “decommodification” and the other being “social control” of capital. Writes Chait:The organization is still called democratic socialists, of course, but the term does not necessarily mean “liberal democracy” as Americans have traditionally defined it. The key to establishing power is and always has been the seizure of private property and private capital.