FREEDOM TO ALL HUMANITY

 

The Socialist Party aim is the complete emancipation of labour from the yoke of capital. This emancipation can be achieved by the transfer to social ownership of all the means and objects of production, a transfer which will entail:

a) the abolition of the present commodity production (i.e., the purchase and sale of products on the market) and

b) its replacement by a new system of social production according to a previously drawn-up plan with a view to satisfying the requirements both of society as a whole and of each one of its members within the limits permitted by the condition of the productive forces at the given time.

This socialist revolution will give rise to the most radical changes in the whole constitution of social and international relationships.

Replacing the present mastery of the product over the producer with that of the producer over the product will introduce consciousness where there now reigns blind economic necessity; by simplifying and giving purpose to all social relationships it will at the same time provide each citizen with the real economic possibility of participating directly in the discussion and decision of all social matters.

This direct participation of citizens in the management of social affairs presupposes the abolition of the present system of political representation and its replacement by direct popular legislation.

Given the present development of international exchange, it is possible to consolidate this revolution only by all or at least several of the civilised societies taking part in it. Hence follows the solidarity of interests between producers of all countries. But as the emancipation of the workers must be the matter of the workers themselves, as the interests of labour, in general, are diametrically opposed to the interests of the exploiters, and, therefore, the upper class will always hinder the above-described reorganisation of the social relationships, the necessary preliminary condition for this reorganisation is the seizure of political power by the working class in each of the countries concerned. Only this temporary domination of the working class can paralyse the efforts of counter-revolution and put an end to the existence of classes and their struggle. We shall concentrate all the efforts of the ranks on the class war, and shall aim at:

1. The capturing of political power.

2. The expropriation of capitalist property to restore it to social control and common ownership. All that under one pretext or another tends to turn away the proletariat from that supreme end, or to weaken its action, will be assailed by us because it tends to prolong, consciously or unconsciously, the present social order or disorder – the parent of all slavery and all misery.

There is no room in this direct attack on the State and on capital – or more precisely on capital by the State – there is no room for any collaboration or co-operation of any kind with the class which holds both, and of which they must be dispossessed, both politically and economically. There can be no bond of union between the exploiting class who hold the Government, and we, who wish to overthrow them, there can be nothing in common but the battlefield and the struggle, no alliance, between the two armies who are going to fight, any agreement must be the result of treachery. This war successfully carried out can alone bring about a victory, and an end of the class system enables us to attain true social peace, the great and final human peace.

There is no room either for the anarchistic illusion or policy, which disarms the working class and divides it by counselling an abstention from political action, as this only helps the holders of capital, whose privileges will remain intact until political power has been taken from them.