Today for revolution, not tomorrow

The question always before us is what next? “What is Socialism, what is Communism, what is Anarchy?” ask those weary of the cruelty and waste of capitalism and desirous of an alternative. For an answer, they receive only denunciations of existing things and a silence upon a hopeful vision of the new life which political activists are promoting, so many turn away, discouraged. Manifestos and platforms are published and treated as holy writ, yet in their contents, there is little to what the aims really are.  Little is defined so that they may be understood by others. Men and women call themselves socialists, communists, anarchists, and what have you, thinking they thus explain their views to others. Yet quiz them and you will discover how few of them have any clear conception of what they mean by their labels.  Advocates for free-market capitalism, for instance, call themselves libertarians, though capitalism could not be maintained a day without the power and coercion of the State, which protect private property and prevent those who have not enough to satisfy their needs from commandeering from those who have something to spare. Capitalism necessitates law and its forces to protect the property-holder from being dispossessed.

People today face a future of low wages, intensified exploitation and domination of our lives. To secure any sort of decent life, we need to organise. We need to educate ourselves about how this whole system works, and what our interests are as workers. We seek to clarify the real economic interest of workers and expose this system that they used to enslave us. There is an alternative to capitalism and it is called socialism. A socialist revolution has to mean control of production by the producers. A socialist revolution has to mean production for the use of those who need it. A socialist revolution has to mean a society free of classes where the antagonisms and divisions between classes, races, and genders are eliminated so that people can develop cooperative relations, relations which are now possible today as never before because there need no longer be any problem of scarcity of material goods and services. All the problems of scarcity which up to now have required the exploitation of workers have now been made outmoded by the technological advances of production. The working class are still the means to replace capitalism with a free and socialist society. The road to revolution may be long and hard. If it was easy they would not call it struggle. We believe that if the confidence and ability of our fellow-workers. The socialist society must be built by the working class itself through its own institutions

Socialism is a theory of life and social organisation. The goal of socialism is not political, but social. Its purpose is not to reform capitalism and the State. It is to create a life in which property is held in common; in which the community produces, by conscious aim, sufficient to supply the needs of all its members; in which there is no trading, money, wages, or any direct reward for services rendered. The Socialist Party aims at the abolition of Parliamentary rule; but we emphasise the interdependence of the members of the community; we emphasise the need that the common storehouse and the common service shall provide an insurance against want for every individual. We aim at the common storehouse, not the individual hoard. We desire that the common storehouse shall bulge with plenty, and whilst the common storehouse is full we insist that none shall want. We aim for relationships based on reciprocity; we desire that all should serve the community. We believe that a public opinion can be treated which will produce a general willingness to serve the community. The exception to that general willingness will become, we believe, altogether a rarity; we would not have the occasional oddity who will not join the general effort disciplined by law; the disapprobation, even the pity of his fellows will ensure his rarity. Let us produce in abundance; let us secure plenty for all; let us find pleasure in producing; these thoughts must pervade the community. In the future socialist society all will share the productive work of the community and all will take a part in organising that work.