The
working class is the main force of revolution by its social
condition, in the struggle to overthrow the capitalist class and its
system. The capitalist system is behind all the ills that burden
humanity today. Poverty, deprivation, racism, sexism, inequality,
economic insecurity, political repression, unemployment,
homelessness, corruption and crime are all inevitable products of
this system. For sure, they have all existed before capitalism but
all these problems have found a new meaning in this society,
corresponding to the needs of capitalism, drawing their rationale
from the needs of the system that rules the world today and serve
specific interests in this society. The capitalist system itself
continually and relentlessly resists efforts to eradicate and
overcome these ills, standing in the way of the people to change the
system. The reality of capitalism today bodes a horrifying future for
the entire people of the world. The domination of the capitalist mode
of production has posed before humanity the alternatives: Socialism
or Barbarism. Capitalism has long been the central obstacle to social
progress. The only definitive solution to these problems is the
elimination of capitalism and its institutions, and the establishment
of common ownership of the means of production, rational economic and
social planning. The fundamental task of the Socialist Party is to
build toward the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of
socialism.
Just
as the capitalists have solidarity against the workers, so must we
have solidarity of labour. The hope of humanity and the path to
progress lies in the revolt of the wage-slaves against the propertied
class, the capture of political power from the propertied class, and
the expropriation of the means of production and distribution from
the propertied class. This great change means that the working people
will own the world in common, produce wealth in common, possess in
common all wealth produced, and by common agreement distribute that
wealth to the benefit of all. This is the task of the workers, but
one forced on us by worldwide misery. The impotence of all attempts
to patch up capitalism, justifies the Socialist Party's position that
only the social revolution can lay the foundations for the political
and economic security of mankind.
Wherever
a wage worker confronts an employer the possibility of strife and
conflict is born. The worker lives by selling the use of his or her
body—the employer lives by buying that use. It lies in the nature
of things that the buyer should on instinct struggle to buy cheap and
the seller to sell dear.
Malnutrition
and hunger threaten working people unless the production and
distribution of food is taken out of the hands of the capitalists.
The bosses of the food corporations will not produce food except for
profit. This acute and chronic problem of food shortages can be
tackled only by changing the motivation of production. That
motivation must no longer be for sale and for profits through sale,
but for human beings, to satisfy their needs.
On
with the fight, comrades!
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