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Friday, January 29, 2016

The mis-sold versions of socialism



The Socialist Party of Great Britain stands dedicated to achieving the following objective: "The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community." This post-capitalist society of social equals, will not require rationing of access to social wealth, via waged slavery, based upon ability to pay for them, but will proceed from a production for use, free access principle of: "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."

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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