The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) engineered the primary victories of three winning candidates in New York's recent congressional races. The socialists aim to take over the Democratic Party, and some members of the old guard are making nice. But I do believe the Democratic Party has been, historically, way too timid in taking on corporate power. What seems to be happening is that DSA members are pushing the Democratic Party toward democratic socialism at the same time that committed Marxists are pushing the democratic socialists toward full-blown communism. If the Democrats seem unable to combat democratic socialism, the democratic socialists seem just as feckless in opposing those pulling them toward outright communism.