The Queen attended a thanksgiving ceremony at Westminster Abbey to make the 60th anniversary of the day she was crowned monarch. Socialists, however, do not go down on bended knee in deference and to offer thanks.
The Socialist Party’s concern is with substituting the common social ownership of the means of life for the present system of class ownership. Therefore no socialist regards the abolition of the monarchy as a matter of any immediate importance. We, of course, consider the monarchy, as any other form of hereditary authority, an absurd anachronism, entirely out of place in a free society. What has a socialist to do with monarchy except to denounce it and to denounce those who actively or passively support it?
The working class with few exceptions, cheer and shout for the royals as though they were their lord and savior. But the Royal Family care no more for them than if they were so many sheep on their royal estates, for they believe that royal blood, by God’s decree, flows through their veins and that common folk are beneath them. However, the monarchy has always careful never to openly alienate workers although they are part of a ruling class which is engaged in open class war. But be it parliamentary monarchy or a bourgeois republic the State is always the political power at the service of private property. It is always armed force at the service of the privileged class.
When capitalism is abolished kings and queens and princes and princesses will disappear with it, unless it has already preceded it to the grave.
The Socialist Party’s concern is with substituting the common social ownership of the means of life for the present system of class ownership. Therefore no socialist regards the abolition of the monarchy as a matter of any immediate importance. We, of course, consider the monarchy, as any other form of hereditary authority, an absurd anachronism, entirely out of place in a free society. What has a socialist to do with monarchy except to denounce it and to denounce those who actively or passively support it?
The working class with few exceptions, cheer and shout for the royals as though they were their lord and savior. But the Royal Family care no more for them than if they were so many sheep on their royal estates, for they believe that royal blood, by God’s decree, flows through their veins and that common folk are beneath them. However, the monarchy has always careful never to openly alienate workers although they are part of a ruling class which is engaged in open class war. But be it parliamentary monarchy or a bourgeois republic the State is always the political power at the service of private property. It is always armed force at the service of the privileged class.
When capitalism is abolished kings and queens and princes and princesses will disappear with it, unless it has already preceded it to the grave.
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