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.

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

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

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.

We need a break from Capitalism.

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

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