BUILD A NEW SOCIETY

It is the aim of the Socialist Party to create a society in which wars will be but bad memories, a society in which poverty will have disappeared, in which freedom will have been made secure, and in which democracy will have become the prevailing order of society for all. The ideas of socialism, as advocated by the Socialist Party, are embodied with the hopes and dreams of the ages, a society of peace and abundance. We of the Socialist Party believe that socialism can be attained peacefully.

In a socialist society, there will be no private ownership of the land and the industries. When we say this, we are not talking about personal possessions; your house, or your clothes, or your car, or any of your personal belongings. What we are talking about are the factories, the mills, the mines, transport - in short, the instruments used in the production and distribution of goods. We say that these means of production and distribution must belong to society as a whole. In a socialist society, there will be no wage system where the workers receive in wages only a fraction of the value of the goods they produce. Instead, with socialism, we shall receive the full social value of our labour. We shall produce for use, rather than for sale with a view to profit for private capitalists. We shall produce the things we want and need rather than the things for which a market exists in which the goods we produce are sold for the profit of the private owners. Socialist society shall have a complete democracy - - an industrial and social democracy. There will be full democratic administration inside the socialist cooperative commonwealth. Contrast such a society with our system today. Today, ownership and control of industry rest in the hands of a numerically small class (the capitalist class) who contribute nothing to production. The rest of us (the working class) own nothing but our ability to work, whether it be physical or mental, or both. And we, the useful producers, who constitute the vast majority, produce everything. But we are permitted to work only so long as a market exists for the goods we produce. When there is no profitable market for our products, plants close down, and we suffer want in the midst of plenty.

The evil of the system of capitalism has long since outlived its usefulness. We have shown that a parasitic class, which contributes nothing to human welfare exists in luxury based on the exploitation of another class that, producing everything worth-while, yet exists in mortal fear of misery.

In socialism we shall own in common the factories and means of production, we shall have full and free access to the means of wealth production and distribution, we shall receive the full social value of our labor there will be no unwanted surplus, we shall collectively produce the things we want and need for full and happy lives. We will benefit from all to find new technologies, new means of production, improved means of distribution. Society as a whole will have a vital interest in providing opportunity to each individual to find the work for which he or she is best suited and happiest. There will be the fullest freedom and opportunity. It is within the power of the working class to establish such a society as soon as they recognize the need for it and organize to establish it. The Socialist Party points the way. By supporting the Socialist Party at the ballot box you will say that you demand the end of capitalism and the establishment of socialism.

And, we repeat, there will be a complete and full democracy. Democracy that will truly be based on the broadest lines. Democracy in which the final and only power will be the great mass of our people, the useful producers, which in Socialist society will mean everybody. No more will society be split into two contending classes. Instead, we shall all be useful producers, collectively owning the means of production and distribution, collectively concerned with producing the most with the least expenditure of human labor, and collectively jealous of the rights of the individual to a full, free and untrammeled life of happiness and accomplishment.

How can we get such a society? The answer is easy. It is within the power of the working class to establish such a society as soon as they recognise the need for it and organise to establish it. The  Socialist Party points the way. By supporting it at the ballot box you will say that you demand the end of capitalism and the establishment of socialism. This is the civilised way of revolution.