Thursday, June 20 at
Torriano Meeting House,
99 Torriano Avenue,
London,
NW5 2RX
Torriano Meeting House,
99 Torriano Avenue,
London,
NW5 2RX
The
Socialist Party possesses eloquent speakers, erudite writers, skilled
debaters and dogged fighters for working class interests. Unlike
those on the left wing, the Socialist Party are not moralisers and it
is no part of our case to suggest that the capitalist class are
simply greedy or selfish people. We do not condemn capitalists as individuals, we
condemn capitalism as a social system. Nor
is that condemnation based simply on the facts of capitalism's
miseries—its poverty amid abundance, its degradation of human life,
the waste of its wars, crises and all its other social failings. Our
condemnation is based on the fact that capitalism has long since
outlived its usefulness as a means of developing society’s
productive resources and now only blocks the way of a sane
alternative that can provide the material basis of a full and happy
life for all mankind. Further we say that capitalism exists today
simply and solely because you and your fellow-workers, who produce
its wealth and suffer its pains, permit it to exist. Everybody
could live in a co-operative commonwealth producing everything for
the requirements of one's own family and the wider human family,
freed from capitalism’s buying-and-selling, and living is a
society where we can produce sufficient to satisfy the all the
needs of all and where we would have free and equal access to the
fruits of such production.
A
staggering proposition and conditioned as you presently are, you are
as staggered as were those who once thought they lived on a flat
earth when first told they lived on a globe! You can accept that
members of the working class can run this society from top to bottom,
can even formulate the tremendous mathematical data and know-how to build a computer or send a man into space and yet you are
staggered by the simple proposition that mankind can own in common
the resources of our planet and can use those resources to provide
for everyone's needs without markets, prices, money and all the other
superfluous waste of capitalism.
The
capitalist system has both demonstrated the technical and productive
potential of socialism and at the same time
provided us with ample evidence that it cannot be operated in the
interests of society as a whole.
Socialism
is a feasible proposition NOW! Its introduction is delayed not by the
capitalist class but by the working class: it is your ignorance that
prevails against it; your reluctance to look beyond the narrow limits
of capitalism that keeps that system in operation; your vote at every
election gives it legitimacy and legality.
Join
with us now in the Socialist Party and ensure that there is a
socialist organisation sufficiently strong locally to challenge the
parties of capitalism at the ballot box.
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