In the face of the Coronavirus\/Covid-19 pandemic, the USs extreme wealth inequality, lack of nationalized health care system, lack of a federal paid sick leave law, and other related issues have shown the nations severe vulnerability.<\/p>\n
In a New York Times article, Farhad Manjoo wrote, Everyones a socialist in a pandemic. But the laugh catches in your throat because the only joke here is the sick one American society plays on workers every day.<\/p>\n
In this dangerous new world, we just happen to be in the middle of a critical primary election where one of the two front runners is a self-described democratic socialist who has been touting Medicare-for-All as the central plank of his domestic policy.<\/p>\n
Sonali Kolhatkar asks Richard Wolff professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Is Bernie Sanders the President we need in a pandemic like this?<\/p>\n
Wolff is an author of a number of books including Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism, Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA, and Capitalisms Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown.<\/p>\n
His latest book is called Understanding Marxism.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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