Venue: Committee Room,
Chiswick Town Hall,
Heathfield Terrace, London W4 4JN
The Socialist Party of Great Britain was formed in 1904. The Party has stood for a single object and a set of principles which have made it a unique political organisation. It has been, to answer the question very directly at the outset, guided by a Marxist outlook throughout those decades. The Socialist Party has pioneered and stood the ground of Marxist principles throughout its lifetime. While we are a Marxist party, we are not bound to Marx as a revolutionary deity, nor to Marxism as a dogmatic, fixed, immutable religion.
There are two antagonistic classes in society - not a multiplicity of classes, but two classes - those who produce but do not possess and those who possess through their ownership and control of the means of wealth production the power in society but do not have to produce.
We argue that only by the self-emancipation of the working class can socialism come about. The Socialist Party has refused to identify itself with reform programmes to ameliorate the system of wage labour and capital. It is the working class interest as a whole that lies in one objective and one only, and that is the socialist replacement of society for the capitalist system.
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