We
are all on the verge of a technological revolution that can liberate
the exploited. Classes,as such, will come to an end. But those in the
Socialist Party are not
the evangelists of a new religion proclaiming a new revelation. We
simply do not believe in the permanence of capitalism and we are
dedicated to the task of organising a socialist revolution a party
uniting with workers in all lands for one idea, one aim. Our goal is
nothing less than the workers’ conquest of the world. Socialism is
the order of the day and the workers’ revolution is the means to
realise it. For as long as anyone can remember, the ruling class
have paraded one political lackey after another before the people
promising a lifetime of peace, prosperity and the end of poverty
while they have continuously subjected millions here and around the
world to wars of plunder. The Socialist Party accuses the capitalists
and their whole system of legalised robbery and murder. The history
of humanity shows that there is another path – the path which the
oppressed in every society sooner or later takes, the path not
backward but forward – the path of resistance and overthrow of
their exploiters.
What
is socialism? First, it is the rational distribution of’ the
necessaries of life according to need. A person’s needs are food,
shelter and clothing. Our necessaries include education, healthcare,
and culture, leisure, entertainment and other creature comforts. We
cannot precisely define needs, but each level of satisfaction is
bound to produce greater longings and needs. They can be satisfied
with the ever expanding technology. Secondly, socialism is a system
that allows every person to contribute to society, “according to
abilities”, the foundation of happiness being based on social
contribution.
A
revolution is an historical process by which a subordinate class
overthrows its ruling class,establishes itself as a new ruling class
and establishes a new political system. Changes in the economy force
changes in society, a social revolution. The change in society, the
social revolution, forces a political revolution. These stages are
interconnected.
People
organise themselves around the production and distribution of the
necessities of life. We call such social organisation a society. Our
society's system of production is called capitalism because the
capital (the means of production) are privately owned. The workers
sell their ability to work, their labour power, and buy the commodities
that are necessary to live. The capitalist buys this ability to work,
the labour power, the brain and muscle that, once put in motion,
becomes work,and sells the commodities that work produces.
People
will have to decide what kind of new society will replace the old. We
view the working class for what it is – the class called upon to
solve the problems of society; a class called upon to refashion an
economic system which has served its purpose and now can produce only
economic crises, environmental destruction and war.
Our
fellow workers must organise on the basis of their own interests.
They must organise in a party — in the socialist party — which
represents their interests, which is controlled by them and whose
candidates are subject to their directions. Organised politically in
the Socialist Party and industrially in the factory and offices, the
workers will be invincible.
The
Socialist Party projects a vision of the possibility of a class-free
society. We see that the solution of mankind’s economic and social
problems lies not within the capitalist system but beyond it, in a
socialist society.
"Arise
like lions from your slumber,
In
unvanquishable
number,
Shake
to earth your chains like dew,
Which
in sleep had fallen on you,
Ye
are many - they are few.”
Shelley
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