“Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.” WorldNeedsHumansWarHandsTodayWealthResultsPovertyTechnologyConditionsCapitalismCrisisEnvironmentalIncrediblesProfitCapitalistElitesHuman NeedsPrioritizeEnvironmental Crisis Author: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.” WorldDifferentCountryStatesSocialResourcesSocialismWelfareControlledCapitalistGreedyWelfare StateOligarchySocial SystemsEuropean Countries Author:Kshama Sawant
“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.” WorldI CanWarCountryRealityDealsEconomicConditionsProgramDestructionMythWar Of The WorldsMassiveWorld War IiCapitalistWorld War IEconomistGreat DepressionReconstructionAftermathNew DealMobilization Author:Kshama Sawant
“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.” WorldWarWholePeriodsStandardsCapitalismWar Of The WorldsRisingStrongestWorld War IiWorld War IHistoric Author:Kshama Sawant
“We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.” WorldWarLevelsEconomicDebtRecoveryInequalityWar Of The WorldsMassiveWorld War IiWorld War IEconomic Recovery Author:Kshama Sawant
“A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.” PeopleWorldNeedsCountryWholeProblemJobsCompanyEconomySolutionsResourcesProgramBasesMajorityDemocraticMeetingsProfitPermanentFuelMassiveTransitionNew WorldOwnershipFossilsInfrastructureFossil FuelRotting Author:Kshama Sawant
