Plenty for All

Perhaps it is true that we in the Socialist Party have become the naggers of the working class. Have you not worked hard all your life, since you were old  enough for your labour to be of use in the production of wealth?  Have you not toiled long, hard, and laboriously in producing  wealth? Whether it is the “good boss”  or the “bad boss” cuts no figure whatever. You are the  common prey of both, and that their mission is simply robbery.  Can you not see that it is the economic system and not the “boss” which must be changed? The capitalist theory is that workers  always have been, and always will be, merely “hands” ; that it needs a “head,” the head of a capitalist, to hire them, set them to work, boss them, drive them and exploit them, and that without the capitalist “head” workers would be unemployed, helpless, and starve; and, sad to say, a great majority of workers, in their ignorance, share that opinion. They use their hands only to produce wealth for the capitalist scarcely conscious that they have heads of their own and that if they only used their heads as well as their hands there would be no “bosses”  but free producers, employing themselves co-operatively, tsharing all the products of their labour and shortening the work day as machinery increased their productive capacity. Bosses “good” or “bad” would disappear. .Brains are wanted, but not bosses. All would be have fit houses to live in, plenty to eat and wear, and leisure time enough to enjoy life. That is what Socialists are striving for.  The servile puppets of the capitalist class insist that working men and women are “hands” to be worked by capitalists, that they can never be anything else and seek in a thousand other ways, secret and subtle, covert and treacherous, to thwart the efforts of the socialists to open the eyes of the workers. Our work, then, is of organising and educating the worker, to fight for wealth and freedom, and not for poverty and slavery; to fight their masters and not their fellow slaves, and to win that victory in the class war.

 The workers are in a great majority and without them every wheel would stop, industry would drop dead, and society would be paralysed. All they have to do is to unite, think together, act together, strike together, vote together and then the world is theirs. They have but to stretch out and take possession. But to reach this point requires education and organisation—these are the essentials to emancipation. The workers must organise their own emancipation to achieve it and to control its limitless opportunities and possibilities. We are living in a time when the comforts of life, and all the material wealth needed to bring happiness to every human being, can be produced in abundance. We have  material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their skills to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child—and if there are still vast numbers of  people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing drudgery all the way from youth to old age it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity.

There is no need whatever for one human being to go hungry or homeless. The ignorant worker instead of fighting the capitalist, with wealth and freedom as the prize at stake, fall to fighting each other; and the stakes in that conflict are: destitution or death to the loser; poverty, misery and wage-slavery to the winner.

 Socialists argue that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned—that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all.  Socialists are opposed to a social system in which it is possible for one person who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. We must reorganise society upon a mutual and cooperative basis. Let people everywhere take heart and hope at the coming dawn of the better day for humanity, the people are awakened. The darkness of capitalism is passing and the a new tomorrow is rising. The worst in socialism will be better than the best in capitalism. For the first time in history the working class
will be free and no class will be in subjection. We have outlived the usefulness of the wage and
property system