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

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Kshama Sawant

Kshama Sawant is a software engineer born in 1973. She has extensive experience in the field of technology and has played key roles in various projects. more

“The 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.”

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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 political system should be taken into public ownership, and run democratically.”

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“When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life. It was this radical labor movement that forced the establishment to make concessions.”

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“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.”

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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 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.”

“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.”

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“Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.”

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

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

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“I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.”

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