Thousands
of people are starting to get politically active at the moment and
they bring with them all sorts of ideas. We need to give the
socialist vision high visibility and explain the socialist strategy.
We hold a distinct alternative conception of society to offer. Many
have the belief that socialists are productivists, an ideology that
sees productivity in itself as the highest good. Socialists are second
to none in denouncing the capitalist logic of production for the sake
of production, the accumulation of capital, wealth and commodities as
ends in themselves. Socialism is the production of use values, of
goods necessary to satisfy human needs. The goal of technical
progress for socialists is not the endless production of goods to
have, but to transform labour into leisure and integrate work with
nature.
The
problems of the environment, air, soil and water pollution, the
accumulation of wastes, the destruction of forests, the greenhouse
effect, all are setting up a catastrophic scenario where the very
survival of humanity is at stake. The Socialist Party is well aware
of the blind irrationality of the capitalist market, with its
shortsighted profit and loss accounting. The Socialist Party is
crafting a non-commodified future that is based upon based on
non-monetary economy.
Many
voices in the ecology movement inform us that we are responsible for
climate change and that it is our fault that the planet's environment
is fouled up. They tell us that we each individually contribute to
carbon emission because our “excessive” consumption causes
manufacturers to increase their production. The size of the carbon
footprint of individual people is very small and practically
irrelevant. The main culprit to global warming are the business
interests which control the corporations which run the industries
which produce almost all the emissions. Corporations cannot afford to
be overly concerned with stopping pollution. The existence of every
corporation is based on its ability to make more profits than the
next corporation. Carbon capturing technology means that companies
would have to cut deeply into their profits to take any real steps
toward stop it. Business is not about to cut its profits for anybody.
Business has not cut its profits to end poverty or to stop wars.
There’s no reason to expect them to do such a thing in order to
halt global warming. Of course, the main question is the survival of
civilisation.
A
planned socialist society which has control of the means of
production, distribution will assure adequate comfort for the
population. The potential to create such a society exists, but that
potential can be realised only if workers act to gain control of
their own lives by organising, politically and industrially, for
socialism. The aim of socialist production is not profits but the
prosperity of the country and the people’s happiness. The
capitalist practice of only seeking profit while ignoring the harm
done to the people is alien to socialism. The pollution of water,
food and air is caused by the greed for profit. This could be
abolished if the resources of the countries of the entire planet
could be organised rationally to produce a healthy environment.
Climate change is the direct result of the crazy, profit-motivated
system we live in. And so long as that system is allowed to continue,
global warming will continue and increase.
It
is not a technical problem. It is a class and political problem.
While capitalism remains, the wealth produced by the labour of the
workers will be squandered. All the resources for a world of
abundance, without pollution, disease and squalor, exist at the
present time in skill, technique and science. They are the same
resources used to produce the destruction of the environment.
“We
kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction or infamy.We kill
when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of
atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions,
instead of resolutely combating them.”-
Herman Hesse
Join
the Socialist Party's fight to get rid of capitalism worldwide, as the only way to end
the horrors of hunger, disease and war.
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