The
Socialist Party shows not only that socialist society is possible,
but also that it is necessary.
We’re the class, the working class, that produces everything. We’re
the class that represents the future. The Socialist Party is not a
party that says it represents everybody, both capitalists and the
workers, and preaches the idea of harmony between classes, because
there can’t be harmony between the slaves and the slave-masters. We
have shown the need in the future society for organisation among all
men and women for all needs, and the necessity in current society for
the workers to struggle against their exploiters. It would be absurd
if we were to admit the need for organisation for everyone. There
can’t be harmony between the exploited and the exploiters because
the slave-master lives by exploiting the workers – the capitalist
lives by exploiting, that’s his whole existence. And we live for
the day when we can break those chains of exploitation. We
are not a party of both the slave-master and the slave. We are a party
of the wage-slave. We
openly proclaim that we’re going to break those chains. We're
talking about the working class, the great majority in this society,
taking control of their destiny throughout the world for the first
time in history. This system, this capitalist system of wage slavery,
doesn’t allow us any real choice. Wealth will only truly be placed
in common when production will have been organised in the common
good. he workers have no need of chiefs: they are quite capable of
charging one of their own with a particular task.
We
have criticised reforms and ameliorations. Our ambition is neither
official nor unofficial power, and this is our claim to the sympathy
of the masses. But this isn’t enough. We must act. We must prove to
the world that socialism isn’t an abstract concept or a distant
vision, but a principle destined to renew the world and establishing
it on the foundations of well-being and human fraternity.
Socialists, beginning with Marx and Engels have always supported
democracy as against any form of despotism. Thus they have supported
republicanism against monarchism, capitalist democracy against
capitalist dictatorship. But
they always recognise the limitations of the above. SOCIALISM
MEANS EXPANDING DEMOCRACY
In
order for the society working people will create to be just,
egalitarian and equitable, it must embody socialist ideology. Our
fundamental change is not to preserve capitalism but to end it.
Socialism, as it was understood by Marx and Engels, is the process of
creating a society that would have no need for repression and
oppression because it had overcome economic scarcity. Our compass for
where we are heading should have socialism as its destination. We
need to keep this end in mind not to lose our way. The planned
allocation of resources and human labour, in such a future society,
would also ensure that no one would have to degrade themselves by
working for another human being in order to survive. Instead of work
being something we all try to avoid, it would gradually be
transformed into one of a wide range of creative activities people
engage in to make their lives meaningful. A society in which human
beings could enjoy the fullness of life without the need to make
others their servants, or to be servants of others. Marx and Engels
predicted that the development of the productive forces under
industrial capitalism would for the first time in human history build
the material basis for such a fundamental transformation of society.
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