To save the long-term future for our children and
grandchildren, we require a social change. We have to do all that is within our
power to give them a future in which they can survive. Fundamental changes in
our economic system are needed. Since rapid and fundamental changes are
urgently needed to save the future, it is perhaps not an exaggeration to speak of
the need for a revolution, but a nonviolent revolution. If we do not work with determination
and dedication to save our world for future generations, all of the treasures
that past generations have bestowed to us will be lost. Socialism is necessary
because everywhere we are faced with the contrast between wealth for a few and the
poverty for the many.
The Socialist Party puts forward the alternative society.
Socialism will be a society in which the whole of humanity, without distinction
of race or sex, will own in common all we use to make and distribute wealth.
Common ownership means a society without classes, without privileges, without
different standards of consumption. In socialist society everyone will have
free access to the world’s wealth and will stand equally in that respect.
Socialism will be a world community without frontiers. Based
on the common ownership and democratic control of the means of production.
Articles will be produced, not for sale or profit, but solely for people to
use. Within this framework we can clear up once and for all the problems that
are built-in to capitalism — the problems of housing, education, transport,
health, pollution. racism and the others the orthodox parties and politicians
are forever promising to solve. We can create a world of plenty where, as free
men and women, we can co-operate to produce an abundance of wealth to which we
can have free access according to our needs.
Socialism will produce its wealth for human use instead of
for sale. This will make it a society of cooperation instead of competition.
There will be no frontiers to divide the world’s people. Socialism will be one
world, with one people working together for the commonwealth. Socialism will be
an efficient world, in contrast to capitalism, where waste and shoddiness are
profitable. For the first time, men and women in socialism will realise their
capabilities to the full. Socialism will produce an abundance and at only one
standard — the best we are capable of.
The Socialist Party is not another collection of leaders
telling you to trust us and promising you almost anything for the sake of
winning your vote. No leader can give you socialism, no clever politician can
pull you by the nose into the new society. Neither will it happen by accident.
Trying to reform capitalism in this way has proved time and
again to be futile. Capitalism is a class society that can work only for those
who live off rent, interest and profit.
Socialism must be your work; it needs a conscious political
act by the mass of the people, opting for the new society in full knowledge of
what it is. It comes to this — only if you understand socialism and want it. Everyone
who joins us in the struggle against this pernicious social system is helping
to make the life of capitalism shorter and helping to bring about a sane and
rational social order.
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