DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IS A LIE — IT’S JUST COMMUNISM WITH BETTER BRANDINGApply that test to the American Left today, and the vocabulary gives it away. Political control of capital becomes stakeholder accountability. For all the talk of workers, workers gain no power. The absence of the word communism tells us very little, because power has never required accurate labeling. When ownership survives only as liability while control passes to political institutions, the label is a distraction.