The
Socialist Party stands unalterably opposed to racism, sexism,
nationalism, and all other systems of fraud designed to divide
workers and to support exploitation and to pit workers against
workers. A socialist society will not be won not by the efforts of
different campaigns but by the united struggle of all the exploited.
No single segment of the population can win by itself. Working people
are highly socialised. Working side by side in factories, alongside
one another in warehouses, desk to desk in offices, making the
products the capitalists sell for profit, workers learn through their
own experience the need for organisation and cooperation. Clearly,
the products could never be made if the workers themselves were
disorganised and refused to cooperate with one another. Workers gain
through their own work experience an understanding of solving
problems. In a capitalist society, these qualities of organisation
and cooperation, are used to benefit not the workers, but the
capitalists. The capitalists use these qualities of the workers to
make huge profits and, in the process, keep workers in a state of
near or actual poverty. These qualities, however, are very important
for inspiring a revolution and building a socialist society after the
capitalist society is destroyed.
Since the workers are the ones who
are directly exploited by the capitalists, they have the most
potential for seeing most thoroughly the absolute unjustness and
insanity of the capitalist system. Thus, of all classes in society,
the working class also has the most potential for seeing the need to
overthrow capitalism and to replace it with a new system –
socialism – that will benefit not a handful of capitalists, but all
the people. In building the movement of all the people to overthrow
the capitalist system, we have the power to cripple the capitalists.
If the workers don’t work, the capitalists don’t profit. As the
only thoroughly productive class in society, as the only class which
produces and distributes the things necessary for life, the working
class is the only class which literally holds in its hands not only
the ability to end the capitalist society, but the ability to build
the new socialist society.
The Socialist Party believes that the
working class can create and develop the revolutionary movement to
overthrow capitalism and to replace it with socialism. We do not hold
to the old romantic notion of a handful of heroic revolutionaries can
make the revolution for the people, such people never accomplish much
and history shows over and over that all such schemes are doomed to
failure but rather the people shall make the revolution for
themselves. The ruling class has created the illusion that basic
change can come by using reforms. The Left have perpetuated this
myth. Change will only come when the people build their own political
instruments, when they learn that there is no easy way and rely on
their own efforts. It is impossible to develop a vision of the future
without ideas and strategy which in the long run the people will view
as indispensable to achieving their aspirations.
The
working class is a sleeping giant and already is beginning to stir,
and when it fully awakens, when it recognises the great power it has
in its hands, the whole world will shake. It is only a matter of time
but we should prepare ourselves for a long hard battle ahead.
The
main thing is education, sharing information in a context that is
relevant to our fellow-workers. We share our goals, and talk about
what it would take to get them. People are receptive if sceptical.
The biggest hesitation that people have is hoping for something new.
People are willing to try new things, but they definitely are
hesitant about hoping once again.
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