WASHINGTON — There’s been a lot of talk this midterm election season about socialism, but only a handful of candidates running for Congress actually align with the far-left wing of the party or consider themselves part of the Democratic Socialists of America. Most of these candidates come from a few Democratic…

It is common for mainstream news outlets and political commentators in the United States to describe socialists as “very liberal” or simply “progressive,” or to puzzle over how to draw ideological lines between democratic socialists and others on the broad Left. There are, in fact, serious differences — differences…