Kshama Sawant

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

— Kshama Sawant

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship…

— Kshama Sawant

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

— Kshama Sawant

Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not…

— Kshama Sawant

The for-profit health insurance industry is the main obstacle to delivering high quality, universal healthcare for all. It should be replaced with…

— Kshama Sawant

Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there…

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

— Kshama Sawant

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

— Kshama Sawant

The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and…

— Kshama Sawant

When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to…

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Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis.…

— Kshama Sawant

Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US…

— Kshama Sawant

What Bernie Sanders is calling for is incredibly important. Things like a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, and free…

— Kshama Sawant

The underlying issue is the system of capitalism itself, and under this system the best means for regulating or checking their power…

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There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created…

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To break the power of the big corporations, we would propose that the biggest 500 corporations that dominate the rigged economy and…

— Kshama Sawant

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

— Kshama Sawant

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

— Kshama Sawant

Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.

— Kshama Sawant

We need a break from Capitalism,

— Kshama Sawant

This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every…

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There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead,…

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Bernie Sanders says that the biggest banks that dominate the economy should be broken up into smaller banks. This would be far…

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

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

— Kshama Sawant