According to the book, Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey by Donald F. Busky, democratic socialism can be defined as combining the “ideas of liberal-democratic government with that of social ownership and control of the economy.” The author goes on to say that it is a “wing of the socialist movement that combines a belief in socially owned economy with that of political democracy.” The term “democratic socialism” is often used to distinguish those ideals from a more traditional view of socialism, which aligns itself more with communism than a democracy. Critics of this view democratic socialism as being a watered-down…