I think to Europeans – especially Germany, France, Scandinavia… socialism refers to what you call Democratic socialism. Wheres the far ends of the spectrum are

I think to Europeans – especially Germany, France, Scandinavia… socialism refers to what you call Democratic socialism. Wheres the far ends of the spectrum are Communism vs Capitalism. I think this actually used to be a very natural distinction although the Neo-liberal movement have done a good job to paint out any form of socialism to be equal to Communism.