There are no solutions within capitalism

There has never been a free people in any nation. Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves. Working people are not content to remain wage slaves of the capitalists. If the working class is to free itself from wage slavery it cannot be repeated too often that everything depends upon the working class itself. Political parties are reflect the interests of those who finance them. This is the infallible test of their character These parties are the political expressions of the divisions within the capitalist class. The donors who fund all these parties do so for only one the reason, that they represent their interests. Professional politicians of whatever party are very much alike in one respect, they serve their masters. The simple question is, can the workers, by education, organisation, and co-operation to take control of the productive forces and manage industry in the interest of the people and for the benefit of society where there would be no “bosses” but free men and women, employing themselves co-operatively under regulations of their own, taking to themselves all the products of their labour and shortening the work-day as technology increases their productive capacity. Such a change would be benefit all. The bosses would disappear; all would be useful workers and have fit houses to live in, plenty to eat and leisure time enough to enjoy life. That is the socialism, plain and simple, and what the Socialist Party is striving towards. This is not a mere fanciful Utopian theory. All the workers have to do is to recognize their strength and fit themselves social freedom, transforming society. The servile lackeys and prostituted puppets all insist that working men and women can never be anything else other than employees. It is the task of the Socialist Party to open the eyes of our fellow-workers and widen the horizon of their vision so that they may find their way to freedom. Our fellow-workers should be not waiting for some so-called “great leader” or “good man” to do it for them, but prepare to do all things for themselves. No more bosses. All they have to do is to unite, think together, act together, vote together, never ceasing to forget that they are one, and that the world is theirs for them to take possession of.

The history of the working class has been a history of unremitting struggle against exploitation and oppression by the capitalist class. Born in violence, the capitalist system can only end with the overthrow of the parasitic ruling class by the working class, the creators of all wealth in society. Under the rule of the capitalists, there can be no freedom for the workers – only freedom to be exploited as wage slaves. Humbly and meekly we have come every day to the factory or office begging for the privilege to toil and pile up profits for our heartless masters.

Work is a means not only for creating goods and products that support the existence of man and society, but also for the self-improvement of the individual and of mankind. There is no really human existence imaginable without work. But wage-slavery is the enemy of human dignity and self-development. Blessed be the day does away with wage slavery!

We appeal to you then, fellow-workers, to rally around the only banner that symbolises hope – the banner of socialism. Otherwise all hope ends with the grave. The Socialist Party is absolutely the only party of the exploited workers in the factories and mines, on the farms, at the offices, workers of both sexes and all nationalities and colours, in fact, the people and demanding that industries shall be taken over by workers who shall operate them for the benefit of the whole people. We demand the machinery of production in the name of the workers and the control of society in the name of the people. We demand the abolition of capitalism and wage-slavery and the surrender of the capitalist class. We demand that that all children born into the world shall have equal opportunity to grow up, to be educated minds, to have healthy bodies and to develop and freely express the best there is in them in mental and physical achievement. We demand complete control of industry by the workers; we demand all the wealth they produce for their own needs. We demand the Earth for all the people. Let our slogan be the common ownership of the means of life.