The People Against the Profit System

"A worker in revolt is wiser than the learned professor who justifies his chains."

Under capitalism, workers have no control over what is produced and how. All that is decided by how much profit some capitalist will gain. But socialism enables society to decide how to organise itself and the resources of society to meet the needs of the people. As long as profit for the few is the basis of the economic system, that system–capitalism–will continue to go from crisis to crisis, with more and more misery for the people.

While the capitalists revel in luxury and extravagance, the workers are condemned to lives of toil and deprivation. Members of the upper class are known for eating too much. Members of the working class die for want of enough to eat. Poverty and the fear of poverty render their lives miserable. The average worker is not more than a few weeks removed from a state of destitution.  The workers have a power infinitely greater than that of the capitalists. That is their ability to produce wealth, to run industry and to carry on production. They can do this without capitalists, while without workers, capitalists are impotent and helpless. We would lose our chains, our miseries, but gain the world for all the workers, a world fit for men and women to live their lives in freedom of love and labour.

The fight for the liberation of the working class is not a fight for new class privileges and prerogatives but for equal rights and equal obligations for all and for the abolition of class rule, an ending of the wage system and every sort of oppression in whatever form such may reveal itself. The Socialist Party  is pitted against the whole profit-making system. It declares that there can be no compromise so long as the working class lives in want while the master class lives in luxury. There can be no peace until the workers organise as a class, take possession of the resources of the earth and the machinery of production and distribution and abolish the wage system. In other words, the workers must own in common and run democratically all the essential industrial institutions . Whatever is good and benevolent in our society can be saved only by the workers, not because they possess the men's hearts of saints and angels but because the desire to live is the basic principle that compels men and women to seek a more suitable environment, so that they may live better and more happily.  The first step in this direction is to overthrow the capitalist state and establish socialism. The Socialist Party believes that the working class is ready to challenge the wage system and is fed up with the reformist groups which offer no alternative. 

Imagine a united labour movement taking control and political power. Real working class political strength. Going on to end wage slavery. This is our future. With a proper understanding of the economic system, the workers will soon find means to end that system, and to raise on its ruins a society having for its goal the benefit of the whole, instead of just a privileged part, of the community. Wage Slaves!  Think of it!  The time has come when what has appeared so far off is fast approaching – the abolition of the wage system. The Socialist Party differs from every other political party in that it aas set up for the abolition of the wage system. While the political parties of the reformers declare their compromise and collaboration with the property-owners as their “revolutionary” goal, the Socialist Party is working on changing the basic foundation of the current social system. A mere change of government personnel does not satisfy us because capitalism remains and the exploitation continues. And it will continue, until the workers abolish the wages system. 

The abolition of capitalism is our organisation’s expressed goal. While others have expressed the damage caused by the profit system, the Socialist Party has worked out a platform which will make the end of capitalism a reality. Let us organise and learn, because we have no time to lose. The future belongs to those who fight not to those who are subservient and cowardly. Socialism will be a system in which there are no more classes, no more wage workers and no more lounging parasites. A scientific system, which will not be led by the privileged but carefully guarded by society’s useful producers, led by capable, able men. A system in which everyone will have to do useful work if they are able and if they want to live.