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.
Kshama SawantThere are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.
Kshama SawantBernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.
Kshama SawantLike the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.
Kshama SawantThe underlying issue is the system of capitalism itself, and under this system the best means for regulating or checking their power is not relying on a government which represents the interests of the rich but for millions of working people to become politically active in workplaces and communities through building unions and our own political party.
Kshama Sawant