The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and the Democrats. They were fought for. And in the 1960s, it was the similar. You had incredible movements against Jim Crow, poverty and the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.

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

Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.

Big business has many tools to make us pay for the crisis of their system.