A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.

There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.

We need a break from Capitalism.

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.

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.

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.

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