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.

Changing the World

The employing class will fight bitterly to retain their superior position over the workers. The only class that can be relied on for the abolition of privilege and power to exploit, is the unprivileged propertyless working-class. The recognition of the class struggle is consequently the only effective basis of working-class action, for it is childish indeed to expect that the capitalists will of their own accord get off the backs of the workers. Obviously, the immediate interests of all except the working-class are opposed to the abolition of private property in the means of life.

The strife of today is, then, not created by socialists, but is the result of economic conditions maintained by the ruling class. Socialists seek to enlighten their fellow-workers on the causes of this struggle, and to show how utterly futile it is to expect the owning class to abolish the cause of strife, or abandon in any way its own interests. We wish to point out above all, that since the interests of all sections of the capitalist-class are fundamentally opposed to the interests of the workers, therefore the sane policy of the working-class must be in consistent opposition to all capitalist political factions however these may name themselves. The capitalist class have to get workers to do their dirty work for them. — workers are not only exploited in the interests of their parasitic masters but are also persuaded to tighten their bonds ever tighter about themselves. The struggle is already going on. The Socialist Party endeavours to give it definite and consistent aim, that the conflict may the more speedily end. The power to exploit must be wrested from the parasites. 

Clearly then, the cause of the present struggle (i.e., the private ownership of the machinery of wealth production and distribution), can only be abolished by waging war on the class which defends and maintains private ownership. And since the only class that, by its material interests, is unfettered to the maintenance of private property is the proletariat, on this class must fall the toil and the battle for freedom. Thus the only means of ridding mankind of conditions which now bind the mass in degradation and slavery, is the active opposition of the workers to the parasitic class as a whole; and what is this but the prosecution of the class war?

The victory of the socialist working-class is the only possible ending of this great struggle. This, however, does not mean the subjection of the capitalist-class by the workers; it means the abolition of capitalism and an end of classes, for the great unprivileged masses cannot secure equality of opportunity without abolishing class privilege, and privilege is based on private property. The triumph of the great working majority thus involves the emancipation of all from class oppression, for the interests of the toiling masses are fundamentally the interest of humanity. The workers are now the only necessary class in society.

The democratic ownership of the means of wealth production must necessarily abolish the economic basis of classes and of class antagonisms, and unite all in a bond of labour with identical interests. Under such conditions it must be unnecessary and above all unprofitable for the vast majority to exploit a few. Hence society will have but one aim, to lighten the toil and increase the well-being of all by the greatest possible economy of labour and life. In the society of harmonised material interests that must result from the abolition of class parasitism, the greatest well-being of the individual will only be possible by promoting the well-being of all. Thus will the welfare of all become, for the first time, the immediate interest of each.

The revolutionary makes a stand upon the same code that has served to carry so many exploiters, to power, and which last must help the workers to their emancipation. There is no right but might. We deserve nothing but what we can get with our teeth and our claws. Against the might of the strong few shall be put the might of the many weak ones. Before that might capitalism and private ownership will go down for ever. 

Then, when society founded upon common property in the means of life, has become one harmonious whole, the brutal dictum, might is right, will hold good only between the social organism and external nature, while among humanity a new ethic will arise that only the social good, the well-being of mankind as a whole is right.

The Capitalist Class Will Do Nothing Decisive About I

  In late July and early August the 4,000 year old Milne Ice Shelf, north of Canada's Ellesmere Island, broke up, with 43 per cent of it sinking into the Arctic Ocean. An ice shelf is a massive expanse of ice that is tens of meters thick. While it is buoyed by ocean waters, it is fixed to the shore creating landscapes that are unique to the polar regions. The shelf broke apart due to melting ice, caused by hotter air and warmer water. This was an event scientists predicted would happen in 2022. 

This follows a worldwide trend of global warming meaning its happening faster than predicted. 

The capitalist class will do nothing decisive about it, because their primary consideration is making profits and to heck with the environment.

S.P.C. Members.

Taking Sides Won’t Help.

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freedland, hit back quickly and bitterly at Trump, for his announcement, on Aug.7, that he would reimpose a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian raw aluminum, because Canada had broken a promise not to flood the U.S. market with the product. Freedland called the decision, ''Absurd, useless and unjustified.'' She said Canada would retaliate within 30 days with $3.6 billion in import tariffs on U.S. goods that contain aluminum, and that imposing trade penalties in the middle of the pandemic is, ''unnecessary, unwarranted and entirely unacceptable.'' Freedland added that, ''Any American who buys a can of beer or a soda or a bike or a car, will suffer,'' though that would hardly bother a big creep like Trump. 

On the one hand we could say that it’s just another stupid trade war between rival capitalists, or their political stooges. But on the other hand, workers will, as Freedland pointed out suffer; nevertheless taking sides won’t help. There is only one way out of this mess and that is to get rid of its cause.

S.P.C. Members.