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

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

Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.

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

This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.

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.

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