Capitalism has failed miserably to provide the basic necessities of life for hundreds of millions of workers around the world. Millions of workers are unemployed, hungry and homeless. Older workers are thrown out like garbage when they no longer have any value to employers. Capitalism is the dictatorship of the bosses. In the capitalist society, only the bosses are free - free to hire and fire, free to pillage and plunder, free to make our class fight for their profits. We will allow no freedom to exploit workers. They hold power through their political parties, their cops, their courts, and their military. Like all thieves, bosses have no honour among themselves. They are constantly falling out.
The entire labour movement should concern itself with eliminating ignorance through increasing knowledge to the working class. Men and women must transcend the narrow limits of capitalist thought if mankind is to be saved from barbarism. Socialists look for every opportunity to turn things around. Socialism means an end to capitalism through the means of planned methods of production for use in the interests of all. We want a society whose workers run everything in the interests of the world's workers. We want a system that encourages every worker to become involved in running society; that trains everyone to act for the common good and does not indoctrinate people to "look out for number one;" that opposes placing selfish interests above the social needs. We want society to help each person grow as individuals. We want a system that stamps out such capitalist ideas as racism, nationalism and sexism. We seek to render religions unnecessary. Religion serves only the interests of the rulers, who use it to mystify workers so that conditions stay as they are.
Socialism will abolish the wage system and the sharing principle "to each according to need" will be as basic as the selfish principle "every man for himself" is to capitalism. For the first time in history, workers will receive a fair share of society's wealth, regardless of the work they do. People will work because they want to because their brothers and sisters around the world need their contribution. They will share in decision-making, including the distribution of goods and services according to society's needs. They will be abundance. Socialism will abolish socially useless forms of work that exist now only for capitalist profit. Communism will not need millions of lawyers, advertisers, or salespeople. In one stroke, it will do away with layers of needless government bureaucrats, as well as the hordes of petty supervisors and administrators who oversee and manage us for the bosses. It will free everyone to perform socially useful work, which is the source of true creativity. Socialism will not succeed unless people understand it, agree with it, and vow to make it succeed.
Ending the wage system will reduce the problems capitalism causes inside the working class. Racism, one of capitalism's greatest evils, exploits one worker to a greater degree than another. Marx said over 100 years ago that, "the worker in white skin can never be free as long as the worker in black skin remains in chains." An egalitarian society ends the exploitative wage system and ends racism once and for all. Having rid itself of the wage system, society can also end the oppression of women and end male chauvinism, which serve only capitalism. We oppose nationalism and fight for world socialism. By nationalism, the bosses mean that workers must respect capitalist borders. These borders are artificial; they exist to divide workers and keep different sets of bosses in power. Workers need no borders. Workers in one part of the world are not different from or better than workers in another. Nationalism creates false loyalties. Workers should be loyal only to other workers, never to a boss. Our views on the war are clear, too. We oppose all wars. We endorse the revolutionary slogan: "Workers of the world, unite!"
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