Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.

What Bernie Sanders is calling for is incredibly important. Things like a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, and free education. The radical reforms he has popularized are a key part of any socialist program today.

We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.

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.

Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.

We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere.

The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine.