The World’s marvelous machinery, its complex technology are
not for the welfare of the many nor the social good of the masses. It exists
for the exploitation of the worker and the enrichment of the capitalist class.
It is an organised system where the machine is merely the means through which
the social relation of owner and wage-slave is maintained. All innovation,
inventions, scientific achievements of knowledge are made subservient to this.
The state is just a servant of commerce. The only people who have the power to
use the laws to their benefit are those who control the means of production and
profit from them. A mere change of personnel in this political field, Tory,
Labour, Lib-Dem, Green, or Tartan, it makes no difference. The wage system
remains. The exploitation continues. And it will carry on, until the workers
take control of the land, the mines, the factories and the means of production,
and abolish the wage system. We are wage-workers, wage-slaves, and we bear the
signs of this system on our backs like a cross. The abolition of the wage
system is the expressed goal, to which we must cling with conviction. Capital is basically accumulated dirty blood
money, surplus value, extracted from waged-slaves, in return for their
subsistence in relation to a rationed access to the wealth, which workers have
already produced collectively. Any government, however well-meaning some of its
political whores are in Edinburgh, London or Karachi, is elected to police this
state of affairs. Tweedledum becomes Tweedledee. It is all an irrelevance. Political
scum rise to the top of the political pond which is a festering cesspit in the
service of a parasitical system of society which exploits the many for the
enrichment of the few. 'Believing' in any politician is a religious act.
"Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ
superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it" - Engels
The Scottish Socialist Party are Trotskyists who think
workers are too stupid to understand what socialism is, "the abolition of
the wages system", they foolishly believe that socialism can come about in
one country in a top-down model with enlightened masters guiding the masses.
The Green Party foolishly think that capitalism, a rapacious
bloody system of intense exploitation of labour, can be made more equal and
'nicer', while in government would heed the needs of industry as much as any
other party.
The SNP are pretending to be 'Leftier than thou', to Labour,
not hard to do these days, when capitalism has been through a massive upheaval
and ALL governments heeding their masters voice cut to the bone, wages,
condition, welfare in order to ensure profitable opportunities to encourage the
parasite class to invest some of the wealth they have stolen from the workers,
in surplus value.
It is a conceited deception, that workers will have any say
in the running of Scotland. A separate parliament in Scotland would be a
capitalist parliament. It would not provide Scottish workers with any greater
control over their own lives. Scotland would remain an integral part of
international capitalism. An Edinburgh sovereign parliament will leave the
workers in exactly the same position as before. The liberation for Scottish
workers can only come about by overthrowing capitalism itself. If this is not
done, no amount of separatism can ever succeed in bringing freedom. Instead of
tragically wasting time fostering nationalism, workers should be struggling for
a socialist society without national borders. Workers in the main are lucky if
they own a square foot of the country in which they reside. Most of us don’t
own a single square inch of Scotland. It doesn’t belong to us: we just live
here and work for the people who do own it. In or out of the Union, that won’t
change. In Scotland, society is run in the interests of those who own the
wealth. They argue among each other over billions of barrels of oil, GDP rates,
profits and exports, because where the borders lie matters to them. Every
border is an opportunity to wring cash out of other property owners. Scotland
will remain dependent upon their whims and interests whatever the outcome.
They’ll try to sway us one way or another with crumbs (or the promises of
crumbs) but we’ll only get what they feel they can spare to protect their
privilege and wealth. We will remain dependent upon their investments, making a
profit for them before we can get our needs and interests met. The only way to
stop this dependency would be for us to take ownership and control of the
wealth of the world into our own hands. We could, together, use the wealth of
the world to meet our mutual needs and gain the true independence of being able
to control our work and our lives in a free and voluntary association of
equals. Join The Socialist Party to fight for an independent world.
What difference does any of that make to a worker if
independent or part of the UK where in both the government recipe is for
running capitalism which were business friendly and retained wage slavery.
Workers need to get rid of capitalism and the need for weapons, Trident or
otherwise, vanishes in a free access society shorn of competition between rival
parasites capitalists organised in nation states and global power blocs. Workers
have no country and have nothing to lose but their chains, if they make common
cause with workers worldwide. Time for workers of the world to get off their
knees to the capitalist class and take over to establish a classless society of
free access socialism without capitalist, bureaucratic or government elites? The
whole planet is owned by a parasitic class of exploiters. It is irrelevant
which set of politicians, police workers in the nation states in which they
reside. As long as workers have the franchise, they can use it as capitalism's
Achilles heel to remove those leeches from their backs and to take all wealth
into common ownership. As workers our interests lie and are in common with fellow
workers all over the world.
We are not speaking of the mis-sold versions of socialism
such as the state-capitalist ones of the Soviet era or the mixed command
nationalisation type of the reformist Left. We speak of a society such as the
world has never seen. We are speaking of a free access society, post
-capitalist, wageless, moneyless world, where each of us can freely play a full
part in running and organising it, locally, regionally, globally, without
politicians but with recallable delegates, when we need to take wider
decisions. Without private ownership of the means and instruments for creating
and distributing wealth, then we can have no vested interests attempting to
control or direct affairs (such as Big Pharma, Arms trade, Agribusiness, as a
few examples.)
If resources, indeed all wealth, is owned in common then we
can proceed to sane allocations of that wealth rather than engage in wasteful,
destructive, war and competition over it for national, corporate, or individual
vested advantage.
Real socialism/communism is an idea which time has not yet
come, but requires the politically conscious assent of the majority, realising
the potential of an integrated, self-regulating system of production for use,
with free access and voluntary production, to come into being.
The revolution can't be brought about top-down by a bunch of
leaders of the Leninist type or by some technocratic or bureaucratic direction.
“Because the condition
of the workers of all countries is the same, because their interests are the
same, their enemies the same, they must also fight together, they must oppose
the brotherhood of the bourgeoisie of all nations with a brotherhood of the
workers of all nations.”- Engels,
1847.
“If they speak
consciously and openly to the working class, then they summarise their
philanthropy in the following words: It is better to be exploited by one’s
fellow-countrymen than by foreigners.” - Marx, 1848
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