Socialism and the Socialist Party

A society which is founded on the system of the rich making the greatest possible profit out of the labour of others must be wrong. The Socialist Party seek a change in the basis of the current system of society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities. This profit-driven system is maintained by competition not only between the conflicting classes, the capitalists and the working class, but also within the classes themselves: there is always war among the workers for bare subsistence, and among their masters, the employers and middle-men, for the share of the profit wrung out of the workers; lastly, there is competition always, and sometimes open war, among the nations of the civilised world for their share of the world-market. Although we produce all the wealth of society, we have no control over its production or distribution. The people are treated as a mere appendage to capital - as a part of its machinery. This must be altered from the basics: the land, the capital, the machinery, factories, workshops, stores, means of transit, mines, all the means of production and distribution of wealth, must be treated as the common property of all. This change in the method of production and distribution would enable everyone to live decently, and free from the sordid anxieties for daily livelihood which at present weigh so heavily on the minds of the mankind.

Nationalisation which many earnest and sincere persons have preached, would be useless as labour is still subject to the fleecing of surplus value inevitable under the capitalist system. No better solution would be that of state capitalism, whose aim it would be to make concessions to the working class while leaving the present system of capital and wages still in operation: no number of merely administrative changes, until the workers are in possession of all political power, would make any real approach to socialism.

The Socialist Party aims at the realisation of complete socialism , and well knows that this can never happen in any one country without the help of the workers of all the world. For us neither geographical boundaries, political history, nor race makes rivals or enemies; for us there are no nations, but only varied masses of workers and friends, whose mutual sympathies are checked or perverted by groups of bosses whose interest it is to stir up rivalries and hatreds between the dwellers in different lands. Marx pointed out that society would never be remodeled unless the proletariat of all countries did it, and until they did, society would be increasingly torn by growing contradictions and antagonisms, We in the Socialist Party strive for a real revolution and want a real change in society.