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SUBJECT: Let’s make ‘#MerryChristmas’ the right of all people
To: 'Editor@people.com'
I am sorry you missed the point of our Tweet in your report ‘Melania Claus? Twitter Reacts to the First Lady's Filtered Christmas Selfie’ (Politics, 28th December).
The Socialist Party does not take issue with any particular political decision, such as the GOP tax bill, but instead with those government represents, the so-called ‘one per-cent’ who control the means of making and distributing wealth and put profits before people. We see this class domination over the means of life as the cause of poverty, which is the daily experience of so many millions, and only a month’s salary away from most of the rest of your readers, the ‘99 per-cent’ whose hard work actually produced this wealth.
Instead, we stand for a world of common ownership and democratic participation, where a ‘#MerryChristmas’ will forever be available as of right to all people. We seek to convince the majority of people to peacefully and democratically act to make this vision a reality.
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NOTES FOR EDITORS
About The Socialist Party
The Socialist Party is like no other political party in Britain. Founded in 1904, it is made up of people who have joined together because we want to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism.
Our aim is to persuade others to become socialist and act for themselves, organizing democratically and without leaders, to bring about the kind of society that we advocate. We are solely concerned with building a movement of socialists for socialism. We are not a reformist party with a programme of policies to patch up capitalism.
The Party has been unique in Britain throughout and since the twentieth century for:
· Consistently advocating world socialism - a fully democratic society based upon co-operation and production for use.
· Opposing every single war
· Opposing every single government
· Being a democratic and leaderless organisation
Together with a number of companion parties overseas who share the same object, we constitute the Movement for World Socialism.
What an effective and succinct summary of socialism this short piece provides. I am reading William Morris's book at the moment: 'News from Nowhere' which was published in 1890. It provides a wonderfully idyllic picture of the socialist society. Today's advanced capitalism becomes more virulently destructive of our species and the environment each day that it is allowed to rampage over the planet. Many would dismiss Morris's conception of society as hopelessly romantic, but we need visionaries like Morris to encourage us to aspire to something better than our subjugation by the death cult of capitalism.
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