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

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

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

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

Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.