The difference between Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn and what the US elections won't allow you to decide

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A country that has been completely taken over by the banking mafia and the corporate power will never allow people to decide on the most important issue: the abolition of the dominant system that works against them.

Professor Richard Wolff explains:

Because of Bernie Sanders, particularly, we now have the word Socialism floating around, but typically it's about, more or less, really among Democrats. Like Mr. Sanders is ambiguously an independent but he's also a Democrat.

So, the ‘Socialists’ seemed to be the Democrats who want to do more for people. Social welfare, social supports, state supports, versus those who don't want to do quite so much - the centrist Democrats, like Clinton and Obama.

But the real question is a program of change. Socialism is a change of system it goes away from capitalism to do something else. It would be interesting if we could have an election ‘do we want that?’, ‘would we like a different system?’.

There are countries doing that. In Great Britain, the Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn has proposed that if they get the election for Prime Minister, the next time it comes, they will create a worker co-operative sector of the British economy. They will create a huge sector in manufacturing, in services across the board, where the organisation of businesses will be democratic worker co-ops, not capitalist enterprises with shareholders and all the rest of it.

And they say, ‘vote for us if you want to have a choice in England between capitalist enterprises from whom you can shop and where you can work, versus worker co-ops from whom you could alternatively shop and where you could work’.

That is, giving the British people a real choice about their economic future. We don't have that in the United States.

Again, our elections deny us such a choice. And the elections are very important because of what they're denying us until we demand otherwise.

Elections in politically complicated societies like ours are as important for what they don't put forward as for what they do. Our elections do not put forward the economic crisis and the breaking apart of a traditional capitalism that is our problem. They focus us, instead, on gun control, on immigrants, on a variety of issues that they hope will distract us from the big economic questions that are our problem.

Politics and economics are complicated, interactive systems. We shouldn't be fooled into imagining that because of what we vote we are actually able to control our society.