End the Old - Build the New
We are the Socialist Party which can transform society. Our aim is the socialist revolution that will put an end to capitalist exploitation and all the forms of oppression that inevitably accompany it. Will you help?
Humanity has become class-divided communities through the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a minority of people who constitute themselves as the ruling class. The aim of all those who want working class self-emancipation has to be the destruction of the capitalism
The theory of surplus value is the cornerstone of Marx’s economic theory. Marx argued that the value of every commodity is determined by the quantity of socially necessary labour time spent on its production. Where the capitalist economists saw a relation of things (the exchange of one commodity for another), Marx revealed a relation among people. The exchange of commodities expresses the tie by which individual producers are bound through the market. Money signifies that this tie is becoming closer and closer, inseparably binding the entire economic life of the individual producers into one whole. Capital signifies a further development of this tie: people’s labour power becomes a commodity. The wage-worker sells labour power to the owner of the land, factories and instruments of labour. The worker uses one part of the labour day to cover living expenses (wages), while the other part of the day the worker toils without remuneration, creating surplus value for the capitalist. This is the source of profit, the source of the wealth of the capitalist class.
As the working class fights against its increasingly worsened position it comes to the realisation that the only way out is for labour to take what it has produced for itself. To take over the means of production, the mines, mills, factories, resources, utilities and run them for their own benefit. Then we will have production for use and not for profit. Then we will end both despotism in the factory and anarchy in the market. Then society will allocate its resources and labour power according to a social plan that will benefit all. It is capitalism which creates the working class, which places this class before its problems, which sharpens its intelligence and gives it its science. It is capitalism that arms the workers and gives them the strength to carry out their own interests. In short, capitalism as it grows out of date creates its own grave-diggers who begin to do their work. But the interest of the workers is diametrically opposed to the interest of the capitalists and exploiters of the workers who, controlling the government and the social educational agencies, strive to keep the workers down. The capitalists want to keep the old relations of exploitation. They fight the rise of the workers. But their only alternative is to plunge society into one crisis and one war after another. The victory of the workers cannot be forever delayed.
When, however, the workers of the world unite to take over, then the rule over persons will begin to give way to an administration over things. The state, with its religion, will begin to wither away. There will be no exploitation. There will be no classes. Each will receive according to what he puts in, and as the productivity of labour will greatly increase, each will receive according to needs and will contribute according to ability. When we have reached socialism humanity will have reached a rational system of society where development of mankind will no longer be choked by social relations, where, therefore, society will be a free one and humanity emancipated. Socialism is seen, and rightly so, as the complete negation of the social order that has dominated the world for many generations of mankind. The supporters of capitalism have nothing to offer mankind beyond the continuous existence of a system of society which totters on under the the weight of crises inherent in that very system.
Socialism will be possible only when the workers, those who meet the needs of society, decide that they are determined to lay the living conditions of mankind on a new foundation. The whole future of humanity rests on the emergence of the working class as the creative force in society. Socialism meets the desire for freedom. With the end of class oppression the state disappears.
Wars, hunger, environmental destruction are a terrible cost humanity has had to pay for the delay in instituting socialism after capitalism has outlived its usefulness. This delay of the revolution has visited a terrible plague upon mankind that is going to destroy hundreds of thousands of human lives.
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