"Capitalists aren’t the friends of democracy and liberty that they like to claim they are."

"To make sure newly elected socialists don’t end up looking like corporate Democrats, we need a democratic socialist caucus in Congress."

"That’s the socialist vision: abolishing private ownership of the things we all need and use — factories, banks, offices, natural resources, utilities, communication and transportation infrastructure — and replacing it with social ownership, thereby undercutting the power of elites to hoard wealth and power."

"[Mr. Chotiner] recently spoke by phone with Sunkara, who, in addition to his work on Jacobin, is a columnist for the Guardian US. During [their] conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed the different approaches that Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have taken to progressive reform, why Americans vote against their economic interests, and whether liberals are too focussed on the explanatory power of race."

"The “class-struggle social democracy” of Bernie Sanders is exceedingly difficult to pull off. If he wins, he'll face structural pressure to compromise: administering a capitalist state requires maintaining corporate profits. We'll need to create our own pressure through strikes and protests."

"By democratizing our workplaces, we can supplant the dominant ecomomic system which cannot escape its intrinsic exploitation of labor"

"It is important to notice how leaders carefully, consistently avoid any critique of the capitalist system and its internal structure for generating yet another economic downturn in its long, long history of doing that repeatedly. That absence speaks very loudly once you note it."

"As the economist Richard D. Wolff explains, the company's valuation, and Bezos' personal wealth, are signs not of unrivaled innovation, but of economic extortion."

"In this interview, Wolff discusses how market-based economies have had their critics since the times of Plato and Aristotle, how both major US political parties have become subservient to the gospel of capitalism and how technology isn’t always constructive."

In a video produced by Democracy at Work, Professor Richard D. Wolff discusses "the parallels of declining capitalism in the UK and U.S." as well as capitalism's impact in Central and South America.

"Whatever distractions candidates promote to win voters, some underlying issues will wield their influence on 2020 election outcomes in any case. The biggest of these are the historically accumulated anger and betrayal felt by millions of working class Americans."