The Socialist Party - for the cooperative commonwealth

The Socialist Party exists to help build the Cooperative Commonwealth. The Socialist Party stands not for reform but for revolution, because it holds that the rule of the capitalist class, under which the workers now suffer, must be brought to an end. As to the means by which the capitalist class is to be overthrown, the real question worth considering is what means will prove most effective.

If it could best be done by, reformism, working for “one gain at a time,” and bidding for the votes of people who have no idea what the class struggle means, we should no doubt favour that method. But history has made it very clear that such a method is a dead failure.

If, on the other hand, the working class could best gain power by insurrection taking up arms, we should know that the capitalist today control the military that could in a few hours slaughter any revolutionary workers of any of our cities.

It is by voting for the party of the working class, that is, the Socialist Party, plans to assume political power. The old pro-capitalist parties are controlled by “bosses” who take their orders from the capitalists who pay the campaigning bills. There is a worldwide chasm between the social philosophy and political aims of Socialism and those of the old parties. The politics of the dominant political parties revolve around property and property rights. They are rooted in the conception that the world exists for business and profits and that the men and women in it are only cogs in the industrial machine. Socialist politics, on the other hand, are concerned with life and liberty and are inspired by the conviction that the earth and the fullness thereof are for people, and that all wealth and industries are for the happiness and well-being of the human race

The Socialist Party understand that if all the “reforms” that are being agitated were to be conceded by the capitalists, there would be no real gain of any great importance for the working class. Its constant aim is to organize the workers into an effective political party to dislodge the capitalists from power once for all, and establish the Cooperative Commonwealth.

While the streets and alleys of the poor have remained ugly and filthy, lined with dark, crowded, and disease-breeding tenements. A Socialist administration would give its first care to the dwellings of the poor. It would construct attractive and sanitary buildings with proper provisions for light, air, and privacy. It was the capitalist system of industrial and commercial rivalry, the system of exploitation, hatred, and intrigue, the capitalist system with its kaisers on the throne, in the factory and counting-house in all lands, that plunged the world into the unspeakable disaster. It is the socialist movement based on the rule of the people, the Socialist movement synonymous with true absolute democracy, industrial as well as political, that lone can save the world. The Socialist Party will bring peace to the whole world. The Socialist Party alone has the courage to voice their desire and their demand openly, vigorously, and defiantly. We are for peace. We are unalterably opposed to the killing and the draining of our resources in a bewildering pursuit of an incomprehensible ‘democracy,' a pursuit for democracy which has the support of the men and classes who have habitually robbed and despoiled the people; a pursuit of democracy which begins by suppressing the freedom of speech and press and public assemblage, and by stifling legitimate political criticism. Not terrorism, but socialism will make the world safe for democracy.