Capitalism is the Curse of Humanity

The Socialist Party seeks to organise the workers of this country into one great party of labour. The object of a Socialist Party is socialism. To that end the education and organisation of our fellow-workers and their persuasion to socialist principles is essential. We cannot have socialism without socialists. Therefore, the first duty of a socialist party is propaganda, in order to make socialists. In doing this a socialist party should also champion every movement of the working class towards improving its condition or in defence of its interests. It is of importance however, that a socialist should be elected and a seat won for socialism. From this standpoint, therefore, it is better for a socialist to fight and be beaten as a socialist than to fight and win under any other party. Are the Socialist Party’s principles unsound? If so, we have been on the wrong track all the time. If the fundamental principles of the Socialist Party are sound, then why try to build another movement on a false foundation?

We as a party declines to plunged ourselves into the mire of vacillating policies, of opportunism and reforms; compromising the revolutionary position we have occupied as a socialist party, for a vote-catching policy, based on reforms, aimed exclusively at electing candidates to office, no matter who the candidates were or their stand on the class struggle. Instead of seizing the dangling the bait of reforms ours is a case of the class struggle to usher in of the cooperative commonwealth.

The Socialist Party believes that the dependence of the working class upon the owners of capitalist property, and the desire of these capitalists to keep the people subjugated, is the cause of all our modern social and political ills – of nearly all crime, mental degradation, religious strife, and political tyranny and organise itself industrially and politically with the end in view of gaining control and mastery of the entire resources of the country. Such is our aim: such is socialism. Our method is: Political organisation at the ballot box to secure the election of representatives of socialist principles to all the elective public bodies , and thus to transfer the political power of the State into the hands of those who will use it to further the principle of common ownership. We therefore appeal to all workers to throw in their lot with the Socialist Party and assist it to pursue, unfalteringly and undeviatingly, its object – common ownership of the means of producing and distributing all wealth.

The socialist struggle is not confined to one people or one land but covers the whole of civilisation. Humanity cannot by any possibility remain in its existing chaotic economic condition and the consequences of the capitalist system. The Socialist Party seeks the revolutionary change in the basis of human society. The clear object of the Socialist Party is to hasten the change to transfer from private ownership to common ownership, all the agencies of wealth production and distribution, to control these agencies on a co-operative basis in the interests of all alike, and to aim constantly to secure for all well-being. The object of the Socialist Party is to secure economic freedom for the whole community, where all men and all women shall have equal opportunities of sharing in wealth production and consumption untrammelled by any restriction.

 Mankind’s powers over science and technology are constantly increasing, the only possible future will be for us all sharing in these advantages on a co-operative basis, ending the existing anomalies of immense wealth for a few and hardships for the many. With modern methods of production, effectively applied, an abundance of commodities can be provided to satisfy the needs of all.  Working people must organise and run the industry in the interests of the people co-operatively. The future of the world is to be co-operative and not competitive. Commercial rivalry will end and economic collaboration will take its place.

The Socialist Party advocates peace that transcends the peace preached by churches. Socialists always declare in favour of the solidarity of the interests of the workers of every country. Warfare means continuing exploitation and enslavement.  Armed conflicts today are not between the workers of one nation and the workers of another nation, but a conflict between the capitalists and the workers of all nations, and appeals to national pride, to religious prejudice, to race hatred. The clarion call of the World Socialist Movement is workers of all countries, unite. You have the whole world to win and nothing but your chains to lose. We declare a class war to get rid of classes.

Socialism is the Cause of Humanity.

 

We address you as socialists. 

Many will not pay any to us, saying we are impractical visionaries with idealistic notions in their heads. Many accuse us as too theoretical and they distrust theories. We are said to be dogmatists and sectarians for standing by a set of socialist principles. The only question for ourselves is whether our ideas adequately explains present society and a future alternative to it, or whether, if it contains an element of truth or not. We conclude that the Socialist Party does not present false, useless and misleading theories. Socialists claims to be an explanation of the present economical facts  of a great many other things, and also to know the only way out of the present situation. We are very practical Nevertheless, we can still keep questioning how to act upon these ideas. The socialist movement is not the invention of one man, or the property of one body of men and women. It is the expression of a phase of social evolution, and of a yearning for freedom which fills the hearts and minds of the people of all lands, a collective yearning which no individual can create. There is a difference among those who describe themselves as socialists the world over, not only on principles, but on action as well. We have to make our choice.

 For ourselves socialism does not mean mean ownership or management by the government. The State is only the agent of the possessing class and State-owned businesses are run for profit just as other businesses are. The government, as the agent of the possessing class, has, in the interests of its employers, to treat the employees just as other employees are treated. If socialism does not mean nationalisation or municipalisation of the means of production what do we mean by socialism? We mean the establishment of common ownership and democratic control of the whole of the world’s industry. Socialism means a complete change in society in all its aspects. Socialists constantly assert their belief in the speedy downfall of the present system, and the advent of socialism. We see the promise of socialism. We visualise a society that would be based on the common ownership of the means of production, the elimination of private profit in the means of production, the abolition of the wage system, the abolition of the division of society into classes. We don’t propose anywhere the elimination of private property in personal effects. We speak of those things which are necessary for the production of the people’s needs which shall be owned in common by all the people. When classes are abolished, as exploitation is eliminated, as the conflict of class against class is eliminated, the very reason for the existence of a government begins to diminish. Governments are  instruments of repression of one class against another. According to the doctrine of Marx and Engels and of  Marxists who followed them, we envisage, as Engels expressed it, a withering away of the government and its replacement by purely administrative councils, whose duties will be to plan production, to supervise public works, and education, and things of this sort. The running of a socialist society in reality will be an administrative body, because we don’t anticipate the need for the military, judges and jails and consequently that aspect of government dies out for want of function.

Capitalism – production for profit – presupposes a class of property-holders, who possess the means of living, and a class who have only their labour-power to offer in exchange for the necessaries of life. The capitalist, as capitalist, must seek to intensify the working day and to keep down wages, in order thereby to increase his profit. The workers have to defend themselves against the capitalist; and we soon finds that the only way we can do this is by organisation.

In these dark hours of disease, strife and poverty, the Socialist Party, reaffirms our belief in world socialism and in the principles of human solidarity is the only way that can bring order to the chaos and prevent a catastrophe. We urge all lovers of freedom to rally round the banner of Socialism — which represents liberty of today. Socialism will guarantee to every person the full fruit of his or her labour and thus do away with the main cause of destitution and conflicts. Socialism will usher in a new civilisation based upon the welfare of all. A heartening sign of the fraternal mood has been growing in the radical movement across the world. Building such a socialist party is today the common task of all who seek an alternative to the misery and exploitation of the present capitalist order. The ideal socialist party is one which has: First, a clear and definite understanding of socialism as applied to the social conditions and expresses its views lucidly. Such a perspective ought to appeal to the imagination of every worker. Given favourable conditions the activities of our organisation should spread throughout awakening the consciousness and stimulating the militancy of the oppressed masses, and winning them in growing numbers to the banner of the party of the socialist revolution, the Socialist Party.

A Typical Crazy Capitalist Cock-up.

Trudeau's fall guy Bill Morneau resigned as Finance Minister on Aug.17, in the wake of the WE Charity scandal and was succeeded by Trudeau's go-to person, Deputy P.M. and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Chrystia Freedland. She remains as Trudeau's deputy, but Dominic LeBlanc takes over her duties regarding the provinces. Both Trudeau and Morneau are still being investigated by Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion after the Liberal government gave WE Charity a $43.53 million contract to administer a $900 million student grant program, despite their families having close ties to the charity. Trudeau has suspended parliament till Sep.23, which means the committee to investigate him is also suspended. 

The opposition parties scream, ''Corruption,'' as if they had never done anything wrong. 

Ms. Freedland takes on a tough job considering the government debt is $1.2 trillion; just another typical crazy capitalist cock-up.

S.P.C. Members.

It Has Got To Change

Socialism means no privileged elite, only the right of people themselves to manage their own affairs. It means creating an worldwide brotherhood and sisterhood. We must resurrect socialism from its present graveyard of opportunism, we must study socialism. We hold to the socialism of Marx, and Engels, the economic doctrine, the character of the state and the class struggle.

Working people are not for socialism as yet, that we acknowledge. The absence of a viable socialist movement today is an indisputable and depressing fact. This is hardly a profound observation. It has been noted by many others who offer differing explanations to account for our marginalisation. 

The Socialist Party remains politically isolated and ineffective. Some on the left blame our alleged sectarianism but there is no easy cure for our woes. The struggle for socialism in this country and worldwide is a formidable task, to say the least. There exists an ideological indoctrination of the population that pervades society which includes the educational system, the media, the church, cultural and labour organisations, etc. Fear, suspicion and hysteria are spread throughout by sensationalist news and social media. The result of all this is that the worst of capitalism–consumerism, rampant individualism, jingoism, xenophobia, racism and sexism increasingly prevails. It is entrenched and permeates all facets of cultural life.

Socialism is an imperative if humankind is to avoid the path of barbarism or self-annihilation. War can solve no working class problem. It cuts across the fundamental identity of interest of the workers of the world, setting sections of this class at enmity with each other in the interests of sections of the capitalist class.

War elevates force into the position of arbiter in place of the common human desire for mutual peace and happiness. Its effect is wholly evil. It depraves all the participants by forcing them to concentrate upon the best methods of producing misery and of annihilating each other. War elevates lying, cheating, disabling and murdering opponents into virtues, confers distinctions upon those who practice these means most successfully.

Young men and women, in their most impressionable years, have the vile methods of warfare impressed upon them so thoroughly that they lose a balanced outlook on life and are impregnated with the idea that force, with all its baseness, and not reason is the final solution in all problems.

To suggest to the national ruling classes of the world that they must abandon “the use of force” when their commercial interests are at stake, is asking them to stand aside while their rivals take the lot. Nothing could be more foreign to the nature of capitalism than this.

Socialism is completely opposed to war and to what war represents. At the same time it is the only solution to the conditions that breed war. It is a new form of society in which the people of the world will work harmoniously together for their mutual benefit, for there will be neither privilege nor property to cause enmity.

No coercion will be needed in socialism because each will gain from co-operating harmoniously with his fellows. But it is a new social system that demands understanding of its implications from those who seek to establish it. With the establishment of socialism war will disappear and humanity will have taken the first step out of the jungle.

Capitalism? The Best Of All Worlds?

Since I wrote about Ford being stingy allocating money to senior citizens nursing homes, the Canadian Union of Public Employees has run an ad on TV which revealed that shareholders in for-profit homes have received $58 million in the last 3 months. 

Meanwhile patients are dying in them through lack of medical attention. The dead were found dehydrated through lack of air-conditioning and laying in their bodily waste.

Nor is this bullshit as it happened to a friend in my building. 

The only bullshit involved is when the propaganda mill tells you that capitalism is the best of all worlds.

S.P.C. Members.

A Society Without Homeless People! That’s Worth Cheering For.

Canada's Federal Families, Children and Social Development Minister, Ahmed Hussen, announced on Aug.7, the government would give $276 million to support the development of affordable housing units and beds in Peel County, Ontario, over the next 8 years. Peel comprises the cities of Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon. In 2019, Peels regional council endorsed a housing plan that would build 5,364 rental units, 226 supportive units and find 60 shelter beds by 2034. 

This is all very interesting: one may well wonder what the homeless will do for the next 14 years. Mr.Hussen may expect people will cheer, but the only thing worth cheering would be a society without anyone being homeless.

S.P.C. Members.