Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.

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.

There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it.

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

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

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