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The Socialist Party is the revolutionary organisation of the working class that aims at the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment of the co-operative. Socialism comes not as a remedy for the evils of existing society, but as principles for a new society. The Socialist Party strives for a new world, a class-free world, a peaceful world, a world without poverty or misery, a genuine brotherhood of mankind. Workers of all nationalities, immigrants, refugees, political exiles, from every foreign land and native-born must make a common, determined demand: Socialism. It teaches the class struggle where every victory is a step towards the social revolution. Socialist Party, has as its aim is the emancipation of labour and the establishment of the cooperative commonwealth. There is a fighting class spirit today among the people. It aims at the overthrowing of the present system, it aims to take possession of the tools of production from the capitalist class and operate them for the benefit of the working class, which will be the whole of society. It aims is to change the foundation of this society from an exchange of commodities to the cooperative commonwealth.  The Socialist Party is the political expression of the interests of the workers. For socialism is in the hearts, in the minds, on the lips of millions around the world. The future is ours.

The capitalist state, by controlling the old political parties, controls the powers of the state and uses them to secure and entrench its position. Without such control of the state, its position of economic power would be untenable. The workers must wrest the control of the government from the hands of the masters and use its powers in the building of the new social order, the cooperative commonwealth. The Socialist Party seeks to organise the working class for independent action on the political field, not for the betterment of their conditions but for the revolutionary aim of putting an end to exploitation and class rule. To accomplish this aim of the Socialist Party is to bring about the common ownership and democratic control of all the necessary means of production — to eliminate profit, rent, and interest. Political action means participation in elections for public offices to gain control of the powers of government in order to abolish the present capitalist system. Such political action is absolutely necessary to the emancipation of the working class, and the establishment of genuine liberty for all. We have slavery as part of the market-place worldwide. Serfdom. All kinds of brutality in the name of buying and selling goods. 

We all in common depend upon the same common resources of nature. Since all people in common depend upon the sources and tools of production, there can be no individual liberty save these sources and tools belong to the people in common. The private ownership of the common sources and machinery of life is nothing less than ownership of human beings. If a man owns my brea or owns that which I must have in order to get my bread, he owns my whole being. He who sells his labour-power for wages sells himself; for his labor-power is his life. The wages system is merely an advance in the slave-system, but it is no fit system for free men; and there can be no true freedom for all men until there is not another hireling left under the sun. The labour of the world is essentially slave-labour. There is not a wage-earner who has not in some degree debased his soul, even in spite of himself, by his dependence upon the private buyer of his labour. So long as some men own that upon which all men depend, the owners and the dependents are alike corrupted, enslaved, and robbed. Our capitalist system rests upon this power of the employing and the owning class to legally appropriate the fruits of the labour of society.

The Socialist Party calls upon all people who seek the emancipation of the working class from the chains of wage slavery to join it and through it and to work for the overthrow of the present capitalist system in all its social and economic ramifications, and for the establishment in its stead of a worldwide socialist cooperative commonwealth. The materials for the building of a socialist world are here, but the creation remains to be undertaken. The task of creating a coherent and free society is the mightiest to which mankind has summoned itself. We build on a sure foundation only when we build a system that has for its end the commonwealth, the common freedom and the common abundance for all men and women. The class-conscious appeal of the Socialist Party is not for strife or antagonism, but for constructive purposes. The aim of socialism is the abolition of all classes and parties and the coming in of but one class, the people. The Socialist Party is not appealing to you for support on the grounds that we socialists are better than other men, but on the basis that socialism is better than capitalism. Socialism proposes to bring forth and educate the best that is in men and women; capitalism and competition are bringing forth and educating the worst. Socialism comes not to destroy, but to fulfill.