We Want Freedom. We Want Socialism

WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT

Its 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.