Bhaskar Sunkara's Vision Of A Socialist Society

In this Majority Report clip, Bhaskar Sunkara on his new book, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality."

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"From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today...

IT’S OBVIOUS THAT things are changing. When I was in high school and I told people I was a socialist, they looked at me as if I were crazy. When I tell people I’m a socialist today, they just nod and go about their day—not a hint of physical revulsion.

I discovered socialism largely by chance. My parents immigrated to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago with four children shortly before I was born. My mother worked nights as a telemarketer, my father, a declassed professional, eventually as a civil servant in New York City.

After hopping around for a bit, they rented in a suburban town with a good school district. Even though we didn’t have much, I had enough—a decent home, a great education, basketball courts, and a public library where I spent way too much of my youth..."*

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