Wanting free education for all, universal health for everyone, gun control, economic parity, etc. how could the Dems do it without being socialist or communist?

When I speak to many Dems (Party of Twiddle Dee) in these parts it seems what they want are many of the traits of socialism or communism but not the penalty of not being able to won anything. They are all for making more money, to a point, if you make as much as the top 1%ers then something is wrong, especially if the cash the top 1%ers have is not even or nears so, distributed among the middle class and poor; sounds like it has a tinge of socialism to me. So how do the Dems purpose to have everything even and still have an open free market system? Those who are not good at the free market system or don’t care to use it will not benefit as well as those who have a knack for it. Not every basketball player was a Ervin “Magic” Johnson, Kobe Bryant, or Michael Jordan, not everyone using the free market capitalism system are going to be a Ross Perot, Warren Buffet, or Steve Jobs.