Know your enemy

Governments administers capitalism for the simple reason that it cannot do anything else. The Labour Party is an organisation which stands for the reform, and not the abolition, of capitalism (yes, even a Jeremy Corbyn government); it asks for votes to run capitalism and when it is in power it cannot exceed this mandate, even supposing that it had the knowledge and the desire to do so.

The Labour Party does not care about the consciousness—or the lack of it—which is behind the votes which sends it to power. Just like any other capitalist political party, it will accept any support as long as it can achieve its main object of becoming the government. Socialism will come only as the result of  a conscious action by the world working class. This action will be backed by the knowledge of what socialism is and how it must be established. The entire structure of capitalism exists only because the working class wills it so. It is the working class who man the forces of coercion and who regularly vote the representatives of capitalism into the seats of power. It is the working class who organise and administer the capitalist social system, from one end to the other. When they realise that they can run society in their own interests, when they decide to take away the power and privilege of the ruling class and to establish Socialism, there will be nothing which could stop them.

When the working class have this knowledge, they will elect socialist delegates with a mandate to take all necessary steps to end the capitalist social system and to replace it with socialism. Because of the knowledge of the people who have elected them, the delegates will have no power to do other than they have been instructed. This will be a massive, universal movement—it will not and cannot be confined to any one country or group of countries.

Socialism will mean the end of the private ownership of the means of wealth production. There will be no separate nations to compete against and to bargain with, each other. Society’s wealth will move freely over the world, from the places where it is produced to the places where it is needed. The entire operation will be in the interests of human needs.

What the Socialist Party offers is a vision of an alternative society, one which is based on the democratic control and common ownerships of the collective wealth of society. We reject the false solutions of the reformists to solve the problems that capitalism creates and also the left-wing proponents of state-capitalism. The Socialist Party rejects the belief that capitalism would inevitably and with scientific certainty lead to the socialist revolution. A revolution arises not simply from discontent and unrest about social injustice. But a revolution is coming. New ideas of reorganising society based on the new relations of production are being put forth to challenge those who believe capitalism is eternal, a revolution to end poverty and inequality once and for all. The coming social revolution must place the means of production in the hands of the people.

The foundation for a whole new world will be abundance, created by people working for the common good rather than the profit of the few to forever end poverty, exploitation, oppression and war. Either the system must change or the people will perish. For the first time in history, humankind can produce such abundance that society can be free from hunger, homelessness and back-breaking toil. The only thing standing in the way is this system of exploitation. The struggle today is for a revolution for a better world. We seek to excite our fellow-workers with a vision of a world of plenty with the resources to devote the energies and talents of its people to satisfying the material, intellectual, emotional and cultural needs of all. We will inspire working people with an alternative, a society organised for the benefit of all, a society built on cooperation. 

The Socialist Party places well-being of its people above the profits and property of a handful of billionaires. When the class which has no place in the capitalist system takes control of all productive property and transforms it into common property, it can reorganise society so that the abundance is distributed according to need. We call on you to join us in this cause. A party such as ours is the deadly enemy of the ruling class, condemning capitalism as a system of exploitation.

To a socialist one thing is clear about Boris Johnson becoming prime minister. Whatever happens — workers will have nothing to gain.