During a November 2013 speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, he said that America has become “a horror show” of savage inequality as a result of capitalism run amok, and that “unless we reverse course, the average human being is worth less on planet Earth. Unless we take stock of the fact that maybe socialism and the socialist impulse has to be addressed again; it has to be married as it was married in the 1930s, the 1940s and even into the 1950s, to the engine that is capitalism.”
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