Kshama Sawant

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1973

American politician and economist

Studied at North Carolina State University

economist, politician, activist

Quotations with a citation

When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned.

If making sure that workers get out of poverty would severely impact the economy, then maybe we don't need this economy.

We did this. Workers did this. Today's first major victory for 15 will inspire people all over the nation. We need to recognize what happened here in Seattle that led us to this point. 15 was not won at the bargaining table as the so-called "sensible compromise" between workers and business. It was not the result of the generosity of corporations or their Democratic Party representatives in government.

As Marxists, we use the capitalist electoral system to win concrete victories for the working class, popularize and build the socialist movement, and expose in real time the limits of the fundamentally undemocratic electoral system we are using. Ultimately, we know we can’t win a socialist transformation of society through the capitalist electoral system because it’s not our system; in fact, it’s designed specifically to prevent systemic change.