The
Socialist Party says once more this is a class war. The capitalist
class and the working class have no common interests. The survival of
the capitalist class depends on its ability to drive the working
class into deeper and deeper misery.
The Socialist Party understand
its role as one to assist the working class to fight the capitalist
class to the end, for an end to wage slavery. The working class is
not a small, narrow class. The working class constitutes the majority
of the population. The working class is composed of unskilled and
skilled employees, farm-workers, and non-production workers such as
office staff including lower-middle management, transportation and
service workers. It can be defined as all
those who:
- Do not own the means of production;
- Have to sell their labour-power to the capitalist class to make a living;
- Directly, or indirectly, create surplus value...which is then expropriated by the capitalist class.
This
exploitation, or expropriation of surplus value, creates an
irreconcilable, antagonistic class contradiction between the working
class and the capitalists. Only the emancipation from wage labour
itself can liberate the working class. Its purpose, therefore, is to
overthrow the capitalist class and replace capitalism with socialism
which is a class-free society
We
mean to replace capitalism, and to substitute universal socialist
organisation and co-operation. Our first principle as socialists is
that all should be well-fed, well-housed, well-educated. The
Socialist Party opposes the spreading the illusion of a class
partnership, that there is an ever-expanding “pie” to be divided
up and “shared” between workers and capitalists. Reformists
constantly spread the view that the capitalist system is fine except
for a few adjustments or ameliorations. The working class and
capitalists, can get along with one another, they tell us and that
there is no reason for conflict. The reformists claim the neutrality
of the government mediation and the legal system. But the facts of
the class struggle, of our declining standard of living, dwindling
trade union rights, and the viciousness with which the capitalists
attacks those on State benefits puts the lie to this class
partnership fakery.
The Socialist Party knows that in a capitalist
society where class struggle is the rule, no institution is neutral.
The State is in the hands of the capitalist class. Our goal is
overthrowing capitalism as a system. Our struggle is against the
system of wage slavery. Our object is the complete abolition of
capitalism and reorganising the whole world on a socialist basis. We
recognise that in this endeavour, we are up against a most ruthless
brutal ruling class. It is necessary to add a word of caution. Some
on the left think a socialist revolution can be done without winning
over a majority of the people to revolutionary principles. We warn,
here, it would be a dangerous game to play with the principles of
revolutionary socialism, aye it would be a violation of them. It
would cast suspicion on our revolutionary integrity, and for a
certainty it will keep us from our goal.
There
are a number of illusions preventing our fellow-workers from seeing
the underlying cause of their problems and from looking toward a
socialist solution. The Socialist Party dedicate itself to exposing
the domination of our life by a class of capitalists who use their
immense propaganda machine to promote ignorance and confusion.
Capitalism has outlived its usefulness and is daily threatening
mankind with destruction and devastation by either global war or
global warming. We strive to establish a democratic socialist
society. Our desire is to advance the cause of socialism worldwide.
We, in the Socialist Party, believe in the entire transformation of
the social system itself, and this remains at once our primary and
immediate aim. The Socialist Party pledges itself to wrest all the
means of production and distribution from the hands of the exploiters
and bring these into common ownership under the management of the
associated producers and to continue the struggle against the
existing system of exploitation until this new society has come into
being.
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