Kshama Sawant Quotes
The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine.
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.
While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.
There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.
This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.
Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.
Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.
On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.
Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.
Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.
For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.
Bernie Sanders says that the biggest banks that dominate the economy should be broken up into smaller banks. This would be far more radical than Hillary Clinton's proposals to regulate Wall Street.
We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.
We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere.
Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.