Our
goal is one of a world free from exploitation and poverty. The
Socialist Party reaches out to our fellow-workers wherever they may
be to engage in debate and discussion. We invite all who see that
there is a problem and are ready to do something about it to join
with us. The
future is in our hands. We shall overthrow capitalism. We use the
term socialism as though it were identical with the teachings of Marx
and Engels.
If
humanity is to be reborn we need to build a peaceful, prosperity
world. Our fight is to reorganise society. Our vision is of a new,
co operative society. The revolution we need is possible. A great
optimism is beginning to sweep over the oppressed. We must
guarantee the revolution achieves the common good through common
ownership. If there is going to be production without wages, then
there must be distribution without money. Political education is the
cornerstone of the Socialist Party. Only by engaging in the most
sustained and unflinching struggle for the hearts and minds of the
people can we win this social revolution. We seek to challenge people
to begin the process of transformation into conscious thinkers who,
through the science of society, become aware of themselves as
indispensable contributors to the liberation of humanity. No
policy of patching up capitalism can avail. Capitalism maintains its
profits solely on the basis of lowering and worsening the standards
of the workers.
Socialist society is the first society which
no longer proceeds in chaos, but according to the fulfillment of
genuine human needs. The system of wage labour will be abolished and
the guiding principle of labour will be “from each according to
ability, to each according to need.” The means of production will
be held communally and private property will be eliminated.
With
the abolition of classes and class distinctions, all social and
political inequality arising from them will disappear. The conflicts
of interest between workers and farmers, town and country, manual and
intellectual labour will disappear. As classes will not exist, the
state will not be necessary as an instrument of class rule and will
gradually have withered away.
Piecemeal
social reform is useless against a structure sustained by competitive
inequality. Ending poverty does not mean a redistribution of income
through higher wages, nor a progressive tax regime or any other
government welfare policy. As long as business is allowed to profit
by there can be no sharing in the benefits to improve living
standards. The poor will not always with us – provided we end
capitalism. Workers have a common interest in fighting exploitation
and breaking the system as a whole. Stupefied by brutal poverty,
workers demand that they shall have some of the beauty, some of the
comforts, some of the luxuries which they have produced. Slowly the
people — the great "common herd" —are waking up to what
is wrong with the social, political and economical structure of the
system of which they are a part.
Things
are as they are because the foundation of society is laid upon a
basis exploitation for a small minority, with total disregard to the
well-being of all the rest. Society built upon mercenary principles
is bound to thwart the development of all men and women, even the
most successful because it tends to divert energies into useless
channels produce a depraved and degraded standard of values. Greed
and self-interest are held to be the main objects of pursuit and
conquest, the lowest instincts in human nature — love of gain,
cunning and selfishness — are fostered.
The
climate crisis is proof positive that capitalism has once more failed
us all. However this system will not fall on its own accord. It
requires to be tumbled and only the working class can give it its
necessary push for only working people understand that our class
interests are not merely the economic needs of working people but the
universal interests of a healthy planet for all the people.
If
the working class continue to accept capitalism as the as normal,
then there is indeed no alternative but to campaign for improved
management and better technical fixes to cope with capitalism's
endless growth. Capitalism is a “grow or die” economy, it cannot
consider place limits on its search for profits and capital
accumulation even if it is contrary to our best science. Businessmen
cannot stop themselves from investing for short-term advantage nor
can they avoid the commercial quest for limitless profits and
limitless growth. No capitalist enterprise can opt out of the system
for long and survive. Capitalism's goals are power and profit. The
oligarchs and plutocrats are organised class-consciousness,
thinking globally and acting globally. They use all the means at
their disposal.
How
about us? We should be building a socialist opposition – the
movement of movements. We have the vision of a new way of living but
cannot continue to act in the old way and let the elite to rule us as
they have. In the end, organising is about political action, all
about “power to the people”. When millions of us begin to move,
we will find the way forward together.
While
we aspire to be “a class for itself”, we can also simultaneously
become a class for all humanity and the whole planet. We can inherit
the earth as our shared heritage without owning it. We can receive
its bounty without wasting or destroying it. This way we can win. Let
us all begin to act now.
“There
has never been anything like this revolution in the history of the
world. There is nothing analogous between it and the American
Revolution or the French Revolution. It is unique, colossal. Other
revolutions compare with it as asteroids compare with the sun. It is
alone of its kind, the first world- revolution in a world whose
history is replete with revolutions. And not only this, for it is the
first organized movement of men to become a world movement, limited
only by the limits of the planet.” — Jack London
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