Interview on the coronavirus pandemic in the context of neoliberal capitalism’s failures, climate change, potential nuclear disaster, and Donald Trump’s authoritarianism

Neoliberal indoctrination has pampered big business and Wall Street into believing that corporate socialism will always be theirs for the asking

The worst crime he committed, in the eyes of the establishment, is not the policy he’s proposing; it’s the fact that he was able to inspire popular movements, which had already been developing — Occupy, Black Lives Matter, many others — and turn them into an activist movement

The Obama administration foresaw the problem, and contracted with a small firm that specialized in producing inexpensive, high-quality ventilators. But then capitalist logic intervened

Inspiring a popular movement that violates these norms is a serious attack on democracy, so conceived, an intolerable assault against good order

Interview on how elitism and atomization have created political rifts

Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same

The core of Sanders’s “politico-ideological gestalt” is his long-standing commitment to the interests of the large majority of the population

Act of war? Perhaps we can settle on reckless international terrorism

Interview on the incredible global failure to address the climate crisis, as well as the nuclear arms race, which are both leading humanity to a precipice that may be impossible to walk away from