The Socialist Party - The Revolutionary Optimists

Homo sapiens, as social animals, hold a claim upon the society. This claim is the right to live as long as he or she is willing to perform a share of the work necessary for the community’s and society’s maintenance. This claim involves, in the first place, the right of free access to the means of life; in the second place, the duty of contributing to the support of the weaker members of the human family, such as children, the sick and infirm, the frail and the aged. This conception of human rights and duties can only flow from the acceptance of the principles of socialism. The object of every protest must be the undermining and ultimate overthrow of wage slavery and if it lacks this vital element it is but a blind revolt and has to be fought over and over again until the eyes of the slaves are finally opened to what they are up against. It is imperative necessity to take possession and control away from our masters.

Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves, and the slaves have always been and are today, the foundation stones of the social fabric. Wage-slavery is the fact. This is the plain truth of what is known as the job market. They who buy and they who sell in the job market are alike dehumanised by the human trafficking in the brains and brawn of human beings. Without this commerce in human life capitalist civilisations of all lands and all climes would crumble. The very moment workers begin to do their own thinking and understands the paramount issue, they will part company with the capitalist politicians and join their own class on the political battlefield. The political solidarity of the working class means the death of despotism, the birth of freedom, a new dawn for  civilisation. The capitalist system is no longer adapted to the needs of modern society. It is outgrown and fetters the forces of progress. Industrial and commercial competition are largely of the past. The handwriting is on the wall.

The Socialist Party stands squarely upon its principles and relies wholly upon the the eduction of the working class.

The Socialist Party makes no promises.

The Socialist Party is the herald of the future.

When wage slavery is as dead then the Socialist Party will have accomplished its mission and fulfilled history.

The vote expresses the people’s will. The vote means that people are no longer dumb, that, at last, it has a voice, that it will be heard and shall be heeded. All working people owe it to themselves and their class to take an active and aware interest in political affairs. Centuries of struggle and sacrifice were required to wrest the vote from tyrants and place it in the hands of the people as the sword and shield of attack and defence. Capitalist progress has done little for the worker except to modify the forms of its exploitation. It will always be until the class struggle ends in class extinction and free society. Society has always been and is now built upon exploitation—the exploitation of a class—the working class, whether slaves, serfs or wage-labourers, and the exploited working class in subjection have always been, instinctively or consciously, in revolt against their oppressors. Through all the centuries the enslaved toilers have moved slowly but surely toward their final freedom. The people are as capable of achieving their industrial freedom as they were to secure their political liberty, and both are necessary to be free.

The call of the Socialist Party is to the exploited class, from the most menial to the most skilled, to muster under its banner and put an end to the last of the barbarous class struggles by conquering the capitalist state, taking possession of the means of production and making them the common property of all, abolishing wage-slavery and establishing the co-operative commonwealth.

The old order can survive but only a little longer. The days of crisis are drawing closer and socialists are exerting all their influence to prepare the people for it. Soon that minority will be the majority and then will come the co-operative commonwealth. Every friend of social justice, every lover of humanity should support the Socialist Party as the only party that is organised to abolish wage slavery and political despotism.

The overthrow of capitalism is the object of the Socialist Party. It will not ally itself with any other party and it would rather die than compromise. 

The Socialist Party comprehends the magnitude of the task and has the patience and confidence in ultimate victory.

The working class must be emancipated by the working class. Society must be reconstructed by the working class. The fruits of labour must be enjoyed by the working class. Bloody brutal war must be ended by the working class.

The Socialist Party fearlessly proclaim these principles and objects to our fellow-workers. We know our cause is just and that it must prevail. With hope and courage we march from capitalism to socialism, from slavery to freedom, from barbarism to civilisation.

Let them strengthen their position and prepare for the future by joining the Socialist Party, the only party which stands unequivocally for the working class. Let socialists everywhere follow its example and declare the class war, in every skirmish and every battle of the workers everywhere in the war of emancipation. All the wage-slaves of the earth, white and black and brown and  and yellow, will abolish the privileges of their masters and become citizens of the world. This is the mission of the world socialist movement. Between workers and capitalists there is war to extinction. The capitalist class must go and the sooner the better for all concerned, themselves included. We are emerging from the darkness of the night and moving toward the light of the dawn, from competition in individualism to individuality in cooperation, from war and despotism to peace and liberty.

Socialism is a growing idea. It is as futile to hinder it as it would be to stop the sunrise. It is coming. Can you not see it? If not, I advise you to consult an optician. There is certainly something the matter with your vision.