by Susan Rosenthal Why can’t we have a society that works? Why
can’t we ensure that everyone has good food to eat, that
everyone can access health and medical services, that all
youngsters get the education they desire, that all seniors
retire with security and dignity, that work is safe, that the
environment is protected and that our global relations are
compassionate and generous? The answer to all these questions is
that we live under CAPITALISM – a global system based on the
exploitation of the majority by the minority. And the solution
to all these problems is SOCIALISM – a global system based on
mass democracy. Forget everything you ever learned about
socialism. It was probably wrong. Socialism has nothing to do
with state control. The governments of the United States and
China control a similar proportion of their economies – about 30
percent – and neither nation is socialist. Both the U.S. and
China are capitalist nations with economies based on the private
ownership of production. Socialism is based