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

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

Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US history, a presidential candidates who calls himself a socialist has had an actual shot at winning the presidential election. And to his credit, he has not backed down from the label.

We need a break from Capitalism.

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.

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

Bernie Sanders says that the biggest banks that dominate the economy should be broken up into smaller banks. This would be far more radical than Hillary Clinton's proposals to regulate Wall Street.