If you stop to think of it, you really know nothing of socialism. Your masters have taken good care that you shouldn't learn the truth about it. Why? Because as long as they can keep you busy shouting against socialists, the masters are safe in their saddle upon the backs of the working people. Any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot. An exploited wage worker, who catches a glimpse of what work and life might and ought to be, finds the drudgery and the squalor of existence almost unbearable. For the bosses it is better to distort what socialism means.
That is what the Socialist Party advocates. Socialists do not preach and practice violence and murder. On the contrary, the socialists hold life as sacred. The Socialist Party values human life. In fact, no one values it more. Socialism means opposing violence, by whomever committed, even if it be by the government. The government has no more right to murder than the individual.
That's why we wish to change the present order of things where everyone is divided, and where there is wholesale slaughter in the pursuit of the dollar, with blood shed in the field, factory and workshop. The poverty, misery and bitter warfare, the crimes, suicides and murder committed every day of the year should convince any person of intelligence that in present society we have plenty of Law, but little order or peace. Crimes of every kind happen every day. Is it not rather misery and desperation that drive people to commit such acts? Does a millionaire go out on the street and rob you of a few dollars? Oh, no. Instead he builds a factory and robs his workers in a way that is much safer, more profitable and within the law.
What does the Socialist Party seek? When you understand that, you will then be able to decide for yourself who are your enemies and who are your friends. The Socialist Party says that it is not necessary to have poverty, war and widespread disease in the world. It says that we are cursed with these evils because a handful of people have monopolised the planet and its wealth. But who produces that wealth? Who builds the roads, railtracks and runways, who mines the ores, who toils in the fields and sweats in the factories? You know the answer yourself. It is the workers who produce all that we have in the world.
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