We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.

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.

Big business has many tools to make us pay for the crisis of their system.

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

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

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.

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