There
are fools who still tell us that since workers has not revolted
against capitalism so far, we cannot expect them to revolt in the
future. Our aim is to replace capitalism with “an association, in
which the free development of each is the condition for the free
development of all.”
In
a revolution, the power and wealth of society change hands. They are
transferred from one class to another. In our time, there are two
fundamental classes in society, the working class and the capitalist
class. The minority class owns the wealth, profits from it, keeps
down the standard of living of the majority class which has no
wealth. In order to protect its wealth from competitors and to secure
new sources, the capitalist class is compelled periodically to go to
war. The workers are propagandised and cajoled to fight the war in
behalf of “their country” – whose wealth is owned by the ruling
class. If the enormous wealthy of society, controlled by the few,
were controlled by the majority of the people under a government
representing the majority, poverty could be eliminated, an end could
be made to the mass murder of war, and mankind could live in peace
and plenty. This kind of revolution would be necessary on a world
scale.
In
the 19th
C and for but a short time after, the idea of socialism was fairly
agreed upon. The
“dream of socialism,” as it was often called, taught that
socialism meant a society without classes, without the exploitation
of man by man, without a production system operating for the purpose
of producing profits for a few. Socialists
capably demonstrated how a socialist society could end poverty,
unemployment and war by eliminating private ownership of the means of
producing the things of life, national and international competition.
They mercilessly campaigned for socialism exposing the evils of
capitalist society, its brutal exploitation of the workers, its utter
hypocrisy in impoverishing of the majority for the enrichment of a
few capitalists. Later this socialist propaganda and agitation
largely disappeared other than from small principled parties such as
the Socialist Party. The paid propagandists of big business, college
professors, economics and intellectuals of every variety have failed
to convince the Socialist Party that capitalism is a wonderful
society and socialism goal remains a mere utopia. The necessity of
rebuilding the socialist movement now requires the re-establishing of
the task of socialist persuasion and education, to tell what
socialism is and how it can be achieved.
The
Socialist Party describes the capitalist system and reveals how
thoroughly rotten it is, how it is an outlived system capable of
producing nothing but unemployment, poverty, war, the suppression of
the will of the people. The importance of the Socialist Party is that
it points a way out of this foul system and shows why socialism is
necessary. Once it is explained clearly to people, socialism does
prove to be one of the most reasonable ideas in the world. The
movement for socialist democracy advances against capitalist tyranny.
The Socialist Party believes working people ought to own and control
its industries. It believes that all things that are jointly needed
and used ought to be jointly owned instead of being the private
property of the few and operated for their enrichment and that it
ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered
in the interest of all. It is difficult to deny the desirability of
such a society because socialism does
make sense, and the need for it remains more pressing than ever for
working people and oppressed of the world. This way the socialist
alternative will begin to appear realistic to millions of workers.
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