It is disingenuous for them to say they don’t have enough to pay $15 an hour. Kshama Sawant More Quotes by Kshama Sawant More Quotes From 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 the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries. Kshama Sawant differentcountryworld Big business has many tools to make us pay for the crisis of their system. Kshama Sawant bigstoolspay We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere. Kshama Sawant newarkrottingchildren We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt. Kshama Sawant debtrecoverywar Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis. Kshama Sawant crisisfacestoday 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. Kshama Sawant risingwarworld There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created the conditions for the economic boom after World War II. As an economist, I can tell you, that is not true. In reality, it was mainly World War II that launched the boom - the massive war mobilization, the horrifying destruction and death caused by it, and then the reconstruction in its aftermath. he US was the only advanced capitalist country that was not bombed during the war. Kshama Sawant warcountryreality Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people. Kshama Sawant collegestrugglepast To break the power of the big corporations, we would propose that the biggest 500 corporations that dominate the rigged economy and political system should be taken into public ownership, and run democratically. Kshama Sawant politicaltakenrunning Bernie Sanders says that the biggest banks that dominate the economy should be broken up into smaller banks. This would be far more radical than Hillary Clinton's proposals to regulate Wall Street. Kshama Sawant wallbrokenwould-be Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership. Kshama Sawant healthcaretakenhands The election results are a repudiation of the billionaire class, corporate real estate, and the establishment. Kshama Sawant politics We will no longer tolerate a system that buries poor and working class people in taxes, while giving big business and the super-rich yet another free ride; a system that underfunds affordable housing to the point where thousands are homeless, a system that criminally underfunds education. Kshama Sawant latest-headlines
