Socialism is the socialisation of the means of production
and of production and democracy is the means to this end. Socialism without
democracy is unthinkable. Nevertheless, democracy occasionally might become
unsuitable, or even a hindrance to our aim. It is a question of the conquest of
political power. The possibility exists of a socialist party becoming the
majority at an election, yet the ruling classes could make use of all the
forces still at their command in order to prevent democracy asserting itself.
Therefore, it is not by democracy, but only by a political revolution that the workers
can conquer the political power. Should a ruling class, under the suppositions
here discussed, resort to force, it would do so precisely because it feared the
consequences of democracy. And its violence would be nothing but the subversion
of democracy. Therefore, not the futility of democracy being demonstrated by
the ruling class attempting to destroy democracy, but rather the necessity for
the working class to defend democracy
We live in a world where the vast majority of men and women
are living under the yoke of wage slavery. Capitalism remains the enemy of
humanity, it cannot be reformed and the only solution is to build a new social
system. We are still a long way from bringing that day of Revolution closer,
but it is only through the educational and preparatory politics of today,
through confronting the ideas of the system, can we prevail. Socialism is the
only road out of the crisis of capitalism, the only road out of exploitation
and oppression, the only road that can prevent war and reverse climate change. Working
men and women of the world rise up and wage the class struggle. Rally to the red
banner of the Socialist Party. We have a World to Win and a Planet to Share. Today
is a turning point.
Our goal is the abolition of every kind of exploitation and
oppression, be it directed against a class, a party, a sex, or a race. We seek
to achieve this object by supporting the working-class struggle, because the
workers cannot free themselves without abolishing all causes of exploitation
and oppression. The socialist revolution will put an end to capitalist
exploitation and all the forms of oppression that inevitably accompany it. The heart
of socialism lies in the refusal to accept that what is will always be. Change is
inherent in the very fabric of society. To find people seeking social change
you don’t have to go back to the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, to the ideas of the
Levellers and Diggers, to the agitation of Chartism, the revolutionary upheavals
of 1919 or the General Strike of 1926. Within living memory there have been
historic clashes of interest between the ruled and the rulers. There have been
the class war and the union battles of the miners, the fire brigade union,
postal workers and dockers. Where there’s exploitation there is resistance. Things
never stay the same: opportunities will arise to assert the working class’
interests.
In revolutions people and institutions are transformed very
rapidly. Ideas, aspirations and actions which would have seemed impossible a
year or ten years earlier suddenly come within the grasp of masses of people.
Social revolution is the hope of the people.
The Socialist Party declares that its purpose is a social
revolution. A social revolution means nothing more or less than adoption of a
system of production, distribution, and consumption which is based on common
ownership in place of the present inconsistent and anarchistic system of
private ownership based on the power of capital. We cannot define the method by
which the social change will occur. But even now, during this stage the
Socialist Party does not confuse revolution and violence with one another.
Violence and bloodshed do not make any movement revolutionary, and essentially,
they have nothing in common. Being an organisation which stands for humanity
and the attainment of its general happiness and well-being, the Socialist Party
hopes that its victory will be accomplished by peaceful revolution. The
Socialist Party is also aware of the fact that the success of the social
revolution is guaranteed only when it occurs at a historic moment, at the
moment when the minds of the people and the events have matured for it.
Therefore, our greatest task is to educate and organise the working class so
that it will become capable of carrying out this historic mission.
The Socialist Party works for the revolution, its struggles
for the well-being, for the self-respect, and for the self-consciousness of
labour.
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