We are THE Socialist Party

The Socialist Party has capably demonstrated how socialism could end poverty, unemployment, and war by eliminating private ownership of the means of producing the things of life, competition, and the struggle for existence by the overwhelming majority of the population in this and all other countries. We have mercilessly exposed evils of capitalist society, its murderous exploitation of the workers, its utter hypocrisy in human relations, and the most evident feature of its class character: the impoverishment of the majority and the enrichment of a small class of capitalists. The necessity of building the movement for socialism requires the establishment of the art of socialist campaigning and agitation, to tell millions what socialism is, its relation and comparison to capitalism, and how it can be achieved. 

The importance of the Socialist Party is that it points a way out of this foul system. It not only shows why socialism is necessary but describes what it is and how it can be achieved. This is a  beginning. But it is not nearly enough. What has to be done, is to increase the spread of the message of socialism. To many, we have become naggers of the working class. The world is teeming with millions of able hands willing to build and operate new technology for the production of abundance. That the peoples of the world are today exchanging bombs and bullets instead of the good things of and for life, is not a necessity. It is the outcome of capitalism standing in the way of the peoples of the Earth. Only the working peoples of the world can end war.  For the peoples of the world to arrive at the longed-for destiny of humanity to produce the things of life in plenty, they must rid themselves of the motives of capitalist profits, saying that capitalism is their enemy. Humanity needs a socialist world. The profit-grubbing obstructionism by the capitalist class must be ended. The working people must take increasingly militant and revolutionary measures to oust the capitalists and establish working class power.

Capitalists are the most class-conscious people in the world. Despite their family squabbles over how to divide the wealth that is produced by labour and appropriated by capital, the capitalists all stand shoulder to shoulder when they sense any danger to their system of robbery. One thing finds all capitalists standing united, regardless of politics, race or creed. That is the defence of their “sacred” system of “private enterprise,” as they hypocritically call it or the system of capitalist exploitation, as socialists call it. All profits come from the exploitation of labour. It is no myth that there is plenty for all. More food can be raised today than we could, possibly eat. Yet people starve in the midst of plenty and food is dumped overboard in peacetime when people cannot buy for they may not have the jobs or the money. We have the resources, the technology, and the labour which has made comfort and leisure possible for all. Who will deny the great potentialities for good inherent in our advanced economy? The owners of production have at their disposal all these wonderful opportunities, but have they used them to end poverty, maintain security and a high standard of living and keep the peace? No, for they have flagrantly and wilfully mismanaged.  That the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is always true under capitalism. When the capitalists realize there is no profit in selling their goods, there are lay-offs and slashing of wages. Food is left to rot in the granaries and storage houses, and hungry people starve in the midst of plenty. The capitalist system won’t work, for the very root of capitalism is all wrong. It is based on a contradiction, namely, that the man who owns the tools of production (the capitalist) does not work them, and the man who works them (the worker) does not own them. 

The working people themselves should own and operate the industries cooperatively. This would end production for profit and the waste of competing corporations. There would be planned production for the first time, increasing the output of wealth so that there would be plenty for all. We have today more workers, more efficiency, more productivity, and more technology than ever before. We have more of all the means necessary to raise the standard of living, shorter hours and certainly full employment for every able-bodied person. Yet today the workers are now experiencing cutbacks,  lay-offs and under-employment. The kind of planned production we envisage would, for the first time, make possible an end to wars between nations.  The aim of the working class would be to end capitalism and all forms of exploitation everywhere. Its aim would be to create a socialist world.  
Capitalism is a wasteful and inefficient system. It cannot plan on either a national or an international scale. It deprives the mass of the people of products. Socialism could plan better, provide the people with all necessities. 

In socialism, there would be no shortages or unemployment created by the greed of a few owners of the means of production, because the people would own the means of production. And even more important, in a socialist world, that crowning and the most damnable instance of capitalist greed and inefficiency –  war – would be a thing of the past. Socialism could take the vast resources which are available and use them for constructive purposes. The inefficiency due to capitalist competition; the wars due to rivalry; the inefficiency and economic inequality due to the impossibility of constructive economic planning under capitalism – all would be things of the past. In their place could arise the new society of peace and plenty. That is why socialism is the burning need of the hour.

The Socialist Party has always contended that capitalism should be abolished because it mismanaged the means of production so that a very few – those who own the means of production – reaped great profits while the masses of the people were deprived of a secure standard of living. We often prove this by demonstrating the tremendous capacities which the modern industrial machine has; how it could satisfy the needs of everyone if it were run for that purpose; and how capitalism, instead, ran the industrial machine for profits.