Future
society will be a society without bosses. The ways of the men and
women of the co-operative commonwealth of the future will not be our
ways, nor their thoughts our thoughts. The fact is that the current
social system is evil, and the proof that it is, is that everyone
suffers from it. All of humanity lives in a state of anxiety. Those
who seek to find a blueprint of the future society in Marx search in
vain for a document that Marx did not produce.
Just
as the capitalists have a coalition against the workers, so must we
have an international solidarity of labour. We think that workers
should be united, too. This is an age of revolutionary change. New
technology is replacing human labour with automation and robots.
Millions face two choices – either accept misery or overturn this
system. Technology is powerful enough to end hunger, homelessness and
all want – but only if it is seized from the exploiters and
organised in the interests of those this system has discarded. We
call on you to join us to wage war on the capitalist system. We will
educate and organise fellow-workers on how society can be reorganised
to put an end to poverty and injustice once and for all. The
Socialist Party doesn’t claim to have a crystal ball in which the
socialist world of the future can be seen like the map of the
Underground in every detail. All we claim is that our study of the
past can be used as a guide to the future. Without a clear
understanding of basic questions we will hesitate and flounder in
confusion and the capitalist class will keep the initiative. We want
to make sure that on the day of the class struggle boils over into
revolution our fellow workers will know what to do. We are fighting
for socialist freedom. There’s a big class struggle going on. And
the question is, what side are you on?
By
capitalism, we mean the system that exists on the basis of unpaid
labour. You as a worker produce commodities to be exchanged on the
market. You produce not only enough to pay your own wage, but also an
added
value, a surplus
value,
over and above the cost of your maintenance. Surplus labour is your
unpaid wage. In polite circles it is called “profit. ” As
capitalism develops, the bourgeoisie, owning the means of production,
constantly strives to increase its profits, resulting in the
development and increased impoverishment of the working class, the
class that owns no means of production and must sell its labour power
to the bourgeoisie. An irreconcilable contradiction develops between
the exploiting bourgeoisie and the exploited working class–the
social character of production which the bourgeoisie develops
contradicts the private ownership of the means of production and
demands the social ownership of the means of production.
And
that’s what capitalism is all about. Capitalism
is the core of all of our problems. Some
people try to escape the system. Some try to ignore it and pretend it
doesn’t effect them. Or whitewash it. The system won’t escape
you. The system won’t ignore you. All
branches of capitalism are so interlocked it cannot be divided into
good and bad. Sooner
or later you’re going to find yourselves in a battle with the
system. And you’ll need help and solidarity. When people realise
the system has turned against them, they will go through a rapid deep
politicisation. A very quick class consciousness raising.
Socialism
is not production for profit. It is production for use. It is not
production for private ownership and the private ownership of
resources. It is common ownership of the wealth. It is not inequality
and misery and persecution and discrimination; it is equality and
fairness. It is not poverty and want; it is freedom from want. It is
freedom from war. It is freedom from ugliness and squalor. It is just
the opposite of what exists today and it expresses what people need
and want and would dearly love to see. Socialism is a celebration of
life. The bourgeoisie is destined to join all the other previous
exploiting classes in the shadows of history.
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