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welter of initials employed by the Left it should not mislead us into
thinking that the Socialist Party is just another left-wing group. It rejects
all reformist and opportunist methods of struggle. Its goal is a
class-free society. The crying demand for the basic necessities of
life has thrown millions into battle against capital. To all who seek
to wield their efforts in a struggle against capitalism in order to
survive: This is your Party. The Socialist Party calls on you to join
us for the fulfillment of socialist goal. Capitalist production
relations block the use of the advanced technology of production to
feed, house, and provide for the growing numbers of working people.
Slowly, the exploited and oppressed are starting to act and organise
in their own class interests. The Socialist Party concentrates its
agitation and propaganda to politically shake up our fellow-workers,
exposing capitalism as the root cause of the social and environment
destruction rampant today. Our educational efforts are to convince
fellow-workers that society cannot be organised to meet their basic
needs. Our aim is to win the majority of workers to socialism.
The
great productive power of mankind is the product of the labour of
countless people around the world. But while the working people
created this wealth, they do not own or control it. The capitalist
system has concentrated the ownership in the hands of a small group
of big capitalists. The capitalist system is marked by a basic
contradiction: production is social, involving the coordinated and
interconnected labour of millions of workers, but the control of this
social labour and its product is private. Workers are wage slaves who
survive only by selling their labour power to the capitalists.
Capitalists own the means of production and pay workers for their
labour power. But the working class produces far more wealth than it
receives in income. The difference is the source of the
industrialist's profit, the banker's interest and the land-owner's
rent. The capitalist tries to drive down the wages of the worker who
is employed only as long as he or she helps create profit for the
business. When the capitalist has problems maximising his profits, he
does not hesitate to throw workers out into the street. The capitalist
system exploits the working class and creates the poverty and
economic insecurity of society as a whole. The capitalist system is
a system of economic anarchy and crisis. Capitalism is plagued by
periodic economic crises. These recessions are built into the
economic system. Each enterprise tries to maximise its profits by
pushing up production and cutting costs. Economic crises are also
exacerbated by speculation, hoarding and other schemes of the
bankers, investors and industrialists. Each tries to profit in the
short run, but because of this individual greed, the working class
and people suffer, and the economy is thrown into turmoil. This
anarchistic system of capitalism creates waste. Technological
advances are delayed or even suppressed due to profit considerations.
The result of all this is that the people suffer. The capitalist
class benefits from the misery of countless numbers of people.
Capitalism is an obstacle to the further advancement of the material
well-being of society. It is unjust, wasteful, irrational and
increasingly unproductive. This exploitative and oppressive system,
where profit is master, has choked our entire society with economic
crises, political reaction and social decay. The drive for profits
holds millions hostage to hunger and want; it has poisoned the very
air we breathe. The situation demands a new, more rational system of
economic organisation that will utilise the productive forces for the
benefit of the vast majority of society. Exploitation, injustice,
racism and oppression, as well as the constant threat of war –
this is the face of capitalism today. The situation cries out for
change, for a new, more rational social system – socialism.
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