FOR WORLD SOCIALISM |
The resources of the world must pass into the possession of
humanity. All other problems, the problems of nationality and of race and colour
will be solved once society is freed from exploitation and class divisions. We
aim to replace the present capitalist system, with its inherent injustice and
inhumanity, by a social order from which the domination and exploitation of one
class by another will be eliminated, in which economic planning will supersede
unregulated private enterprise and competition, and in which genuine democratic
self-government, based upon economic equality will be possible. The present
order is marked by glaring inequalities of wealth and opportunity, by chaotic
waste and instability; and in an age of plenty it condemns the great mass of
the people to poverty and insecurity. This lack of social planning results in a
waste of our human as well as our natural resources. Our human resources are
wasted through social and economic conditions which stunt human growth, through
unemployment and through our failure to provide adequate education. Power has
become more and more concentrated into the hands of a small irresponsible
minority of financiers and industrialists and to their predatory interests the
majority are habitually sacrificed. When private profit is the main stimulus to
economic effort, our society oscillates between periods of feverish prosperity
in which the main benefits go to speculators and profiteers, and of
catastrophic depression, in which the common man's normal state of insecurity
and hardship is accentuated. We believe that these evils can be removed only in
a planned and socialised economy in which our natural resources and principal
means of production and distribution are owned in common, democratically controlled
by the people. What we seek is a proper collective organization of our economic
resources such as will make possible a much greater degree of leisure and a
much richer individual life for every citizen.
This social and economic transformation can only be brought
about by political action, supported by a majority of the people. We do not
believe in change by violence. The hungry, oppressed and underprivileged of the
world must know democracy not as a smug slogan but as a dynamic way of life
which sees the world as one whole. The vision of a new world of co-operative
labor, the elimination of the exploitation of man by man, and the free
development of, the human personality, is a practical possibility and a
necessity. It is in harmony with the world-wide march of mankind. For over a
century the domination of the capitalist mode of production has posed before
humanity the alternatives: Socialism or Barbarism. The only definitive solution
is the elimination of capitalism and its institutions, and the establishment of
common ownership of the means of production and rational economic planning.
Capitalism has developed as a world economic system. It is illusory to believe
that the much higher development of the productive forces that socialism
entails can be achieved within the framework of a single country. The
construction of socialism can be completed only on a world scale. Capitalism
must be abolished. The needs of working people can only be met by creating a
planned economy, where ownership and control are taken from the tiny minority
of capitalists and placed in the hands of the working people, to be run
democratically.
Socialists often hear the comment that "Socialism is a
good idea but it’s not practical." But today it’s becoming more apparent
than ever that it is the present system — capitalism — that is impractical and
unworkable. We know that a better world is not only possible, but absolutely
necessary. If you think so too, join us. We take every opportunity to present
the socialist case and to convince people of the need to do away with the
repressive, unjust capitalist system, and replace it with socialism. Everywhere
there is a searching for a solution to the problems confronting working people.
We stand for a socialist society: where ownership and control of the means of
production are taken out of the hands of the tiny minority of capitalists, and
placed in the hands of the majority — the workers. The capitalist system is run
for the profits of the few, not the needs of the majority. Workers are thus
continually forced to fight to defend their interests. Through these struggles,
they will come to see the need for socialism, to replace capitalism.
2 comments:
Who ever thinks this bull or believes these lies are certainly ignorant Whack Jobs!
What a foolish worker you are . Unable to construct an argument against the socialist proposition, you resort to apoplectic bluster, indicative of an enslaved mentality, parroting your masters words. You really need to learn how to engage your mental faculties to useful purpose and set yourself free from the ideological prison which blinkers you see this system and its wars poverty and penury for the many as the only way to proceed.
Nothing can stop an idea, which time has come.
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