What
is socialism?
Socialism
offers the sole solution, to the major problems which dominate all
others, meaning the question of poverty and the question of
exploited labour. The Socialist Party holds that the exploitation of
labour, with all of its consequences will not disappear until the
day the means of production –– land, machinery, and all that
serves production –– will be transformed from privately-owned
property into commonly-owned property.
Our
fellow-workers must understand just how deeply socialism is in their
interest and cannot stand aloof to a party which tells them, we bring
the cure to the abuses that you suffer in society. It is of the
utmost importance for a worker to know socialist principles and its
methods of struggle. Any worker who genuinely investigates our
teachings will be quickly convinced that they need to become a
socialist, not only because they will find the satisfaction of their
class interests, but also because socialism explains how social
evolution itself pushes humanity towards socialism.
Why
does the Socialist Party hold that only with the socialisation of
the means of production can we find the solutions to workers'
problems? If we study the society in which we live , we will learn
that what becomes ever more constant, ever more universal, and which
repeats itself . We speak of the contradiction of the continual
struggle that exists between the two principal factors of any kind of
economic progress: labour itself, on the one hand, and what is called
capital in the economic game. Therefore, on one side we have labour
disarmed and alone, represented by the working class, and on the
other side all-powerful capital, under the control of the capitalist
class.
Many
environmentalist call for de-growth, a return to a more idyllic rural
condition. They seek handicraft production where skilled artisans are
at the same time workers and owners, and the only labour they exploit
is their own, in cooperatives and small workshops. They perceive
that the great corporations have put an end this former harmony
where workers directly owned the means of production.
Mighty
capital dominated the individual craftsman and the small workshop and
put an end to them, except in some exclusive niche corner of the
market. Many saw the evils that the machinery of technology has
brought and would have us destroy them. They forget what abundance
they brought to the productivity of human labour, ignoring the
betterment of life has been mechanisation of production. Returning to
the old forms, to the old style of domesticated cottage industry of
the past, would mean the giving up all the scientific and technical
progress which has provided immense benefits to millions and millions.
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