Social Change and the Socialist Party

To change the world and to create a better one is the aspiration of the Socialist Party. Our organisation is intent upon building a better world and a better future. Tomorrow’s socialist world will be free of today's inequalities, hardships and deprivations. Instead, our goal is human happiness and social progress, freedom, equality, justice and prosperity. We are not utopian reformers nor heroic saviours of humanity. We are the expression of a social movement arising from within modern capitalist society itself, a movement that reflects the vision, ideals and protest of our fellow-workers. The class struggle goes on between the exploiting and exploited, oppressor and oppressed. This class struggle is the chief source of social change and transformation. Socialist ideas and the Socialist Party emerges out of this class struggle for the purpose of overthrowing the capitalist system and creating a new society without classes and exploitation. 

The immediate aim of the Socialist Party is to organise for the social revolution of the working class. A revolution that overthrows the entire exploitative capitalist relations and puts an end to all exploitations and hardships. Our policy is for the immediate establishment of a socialist society; a society without classes, without private ownership of the means of production, without wage labour and without a state; a free human society in which all share in the social wealth and collectively decide the society's direction and future. Socialism is possible this very day. 

But the socialist revolution that brings about this free society does not happen just because of the Socialist Party. This will be a vast social  movement that has to be organised in different aspects and forms. All kinds of barriers must be swept out of its way.

The capitalist system is behind all the ills that burden society today. Poverty, deprivation, discrimination, inequality, bigotry, unemployment, homelessness, economic insecurity, corruption and crime are all products of this system. Brutal dictatorships, wars, repression and genocide define the lives of hundreds of millions of people today draw their rationale from the needs of the system that rules the world today and serve specific interests in this world’s ruling class. The capitalist system itself that continually and relentlessly resists people's effort to eradicate and overcome these ills becoming an obstacle to the struggle to improve living and working conditions, civil and human rights. There is no doubt that capitalists stand in the way of millions of people to change the system to a society worthy of human beings. 

Capitalism is based on the exploitation — the appropriation of a part of the product of workers’ labour by the owning employer class. Under slavery not only the slave's product but the person belonged to the slave-owner. In the feudal system peasants either handed over part of their produce to the feudal lord, or performed certain hours of forced and unpaid labour. Under capitalism, the the workers, are free; they don't belong to anyone and nor in the bondage of any lord or appendages of an estate. They own and control their own body and labour power. But workers do not own the means of production, and so in order to live, they have to sell their labour power for a certain length of time, in exchange for wages, to the capitalist class. The workers have to then buy their means of subsistence — the goods they themselves have produced from the capitalists. The essence of capitalism and the basis of exploitation in this system is the fact that, on the one hand labour power is a commodity, and, on the other hand the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class.  

Thus, exploitation in capitalist society takes place without yokes and shackles. This is the fundamental feature of capitalism which distinguishes it in essence from all earlier systems. The surplus value obtained from the exploitation of the working class is divided out among the various sections of the capitalist class. Profit, interest and rent are the major forms in which the different capitals share in the fruits of this class exploitation. By its work, the working class pays the costs of the ruling class while ever increasing the accumulation of capital.