CHALLENGING CAPITALISM by BERNIE SANDERS
CHALLENGING CAPITALISM by BERNIE SANDERS
«They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become. Well, that's not my case. The older I get, the less I tolerate the übercapitalist system under which we live, and the more I have the desire to see real changes."
Bernie Sanders
How can we accept an economic system that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer?
How can we accept a political system that allows the super-rich to buy elections and politicians?
For Bernie Sanders – a popular “democratic socialist” American senator who twice ran for the White House – anger against the status quo is justified.
Fueled by unchecked greed and responsible for an unprecedented level of inequality, unbridled capitalism undermines democracy and destroys the planet.
The first candidate in American history to refuse funding from big donors, lobbies and Wall Street, in this book Sanders lashes out against the billionaire class and denounces the immoral nature of the oligarchic, corrupt and rigged system that dominates the United States: «Economic injustice is killing us. They are waging a class war against workers and they are winning. It's time to react!
After the story of his extraordinary 2020 presidential campaign – a grassroots movement that brought millions of disappointed Americans closer to politics, of the war waged against him by the Democratic establishment and of his battle to counter Donald Trump's reactionary agenda, Sanders urges us not to be afraid of "challenging capitalism" and presents a detailed program of radical change that represents an essential reference for the global left.
A real political revolution on the side of workers and the middle class, impoverished by the crisis, which has its core in the recognition that economic rights are human rights and that it is necessary to create a more just society that offers a dignified standard of living for all .
Not a utopia, but democracy as it should be.
«A whiplash. An important lesson for looking at the new conflicts between capital and labor."
Fausto Bertinotti
«An attack on the status quo from every possible direction. Galvanizing and enlightening."
«The Guardian»
“Sanders forcefully highlights the total immorality of the current American economic system.”
Kirsten Powers, CNN
“Sanders' success shows that much of America is tired of growing inequality.”
Thomas Piketty
«An honest and respectable person. It's quite unusual in the political system."
Noam Chomsky
“It gives us an idea of what politics might be like.”
Yanis Varoufakis
«Sanders is angry with capitalism. You should be too."
«Jacobin»
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BERNIE SANDERS
He is the most popular politician on the American left. Candidate for the presidential elections in 2016 and 2020 as an independent with the Democrats, he is in his third term in the United States Senate. Former chairman of the Budget Committee, he heads the Committee on Health, Education, Work and Pensions. Among his books published in Italy are The Biggest Challenge. The road to a more just society (2019), Enough is Enough! Against Wall Street, to Change America (2016) and An Outsider in the White House (with Huck Gutman, 2016).
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