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

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

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.

What Bernie Sanders is calling for is incredibly important. Things like a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, and free education. The radical reforms he has popularized are a key part of any socialist program today.

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

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.

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