Hunger, poverty, racism, sexism and many forms of repression, are still the lot of the majority of the people of the world. The gap between the rich and the poor, between the powerful and the dispossessed, is widening. Capitalists have only one reason for existing – to accumulate more and more capital. The two classes in our society, the working class and the employing class are locked in a bitter struggle. A handful of capitalists control our country and make fabulous profits off the labour of working people. All the major means of production - the factories, the mines, communications and transportation – are concentrated in the hands of a few capitalists who employ millions of workers. For working people, the future is becoming less and less certain. The exploitation and oppression grow worse every year. All this misery is created so a small clique of the very wealthy can continue to enrich themselves.
Every bit of capitalists’ vast wealth was stolen from the people. It’s the capitalists who appropriate the fruits of our labour. At the end of a work week, the worker collects his or her pay. The capitalists claim this is a fair exchange. But it is highway robbery. In reality, a worker gets paid for only a small part of the value he or she produced. The rest, the surplus value, goes to the boss. The more they keep wages down and reduce the number of employees with productivity, the more they can steal from us and the greater their profits. It is a myth that everyone can get rich under this system, a lie invented by the rich themselves. Under capitalism, the only way to get rich is to trample on someone else. This is why workers have only one choice: either submit to wage slavery or abolish it
Capitalism has created the very conditions for its own destruction. Capitalism, undermined by its own contradictions, will inevitably be overthrown, just as all previous systems of class exploitation, including slavery and feudalism, have been. The working class has as its historic mission to abolish class society. A socialist revolution is the only way that the working people can ensure the abolition of all exploitation.
Our lives are not easy but some live in opulence based on the sweat and toil of working people. This is due to the profit motive. As Karl Marx points out, profit is a form of theft and wage slavery of the worker. The exploited aspire to a better life where the living conditions of all would be in keeping with society’s ability to use the wealth of nature. They yearn for a society where all injustice would be banished forever, a society where the weak would no longer be oppressed by the strong, and a society in which one class would no longer be exploited by another. We need socialism for satisfying our needs. While the most that these reformist parties want to do is soften the workers’ conditions of exploitation a bit, the Socialist Party wants to eliminate this exploitation completely.
Ours is a revolutionary party. It isn’t just trying to improve capitalism, it intends to build socialism. It aims to organise and empower working people so that they can collectively transform society. Our Party will be a working-class party based on the theory of Marxism. Our Party will uphold internationalism and solidarity with workers around the world. The fundamental interests of workers in one country are the same throughout the world. A socialist revolution is inseparable from a world revolution.
The dreams of the past have become real possibilities for the future because the material conditions necessary for achieving them have been accomplished. Only socialism can put an end to the capitalist relations of exploitation that are now the fundamental obstacle to further progress for mankind. This is the meaning of the struggle for a society of abundance. The working class cannot free itself without freeing all of humanity at the same time, because the ultimate goal of its struggle is not to replace the power of one class with that of another but rather to abolish all classes. This is the only way to put an end to all the social divisions and inequalities that have characterised class societies thus far.
Socialist society is based on the free association of all individuals who work together to produce the goods necessary for their collective well-being. All will work according to their capacities and their needs will be fully satisfied. Individuals will no longer be governed by the division of labour and all opposition between city and countryside and between manual and intellectual work will be eliminated. The expropriation of the capitalists and the socialization of the means of production will lead directly to the abolition of a society divided into classes. The abolition of classes will in turn lead to the withering away of the State, and to its extinction, for the State is not, and can never be, anything other than the instrument of the dictatorship of one class over others.
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