Young workers who are struggling to buy a home resent immigrants as rivals, especially if they have a different cultural background easily distinguished by the colour of skin. The result of this is that there is a vast reservoir of prejudice and fear. Boris Johnson is pandering to these prejudices. As long as capitalism exists there will be the soulless wastes of housing estates with unhappy discontented workers.
A
new Prime minister? A new government? Now things will change!
The
Socialist Party rejects these assumptions which are promoted by the
media and accepted by the majority of the population. We reject the
political trickery of capitalism because we see behind the façade of
“a new start” the ownership of the means of production by a
profit-motivated minority, whose commercial operations engulf the
entire world. No solutions to basic problems can result from changing
leaders, since they are products of the system, who advocate its
continuation and therefore necessarily serve its ends.
To make
judgements and form opinions on the basis of personality—the
alleged attributes of Johnson against those of Corbyn —is totally
futile and irrelevant. To think in terms of “liberal” versus
“conservative” is really not to think at all, but to swallow the
cut-and-dried concepts of the pundits.
Capitalism sets the limits
within which they can move. A socialist society will have no place
for leaders or government. The periodic replacement of Prime
Ministers and other representatives to governments, whose function is
to protect class interest of wealth and privilege and perpetuate our
servitude will disappear.
The
Socialist Party message to our fellow-workers is that we have another
choice. All of us can unite with other workers worldwide to gain
political power and wrest control of the Earth’s resources from the
capitalist class and convert them from private property used for the
production of profit to the common heritage of all humankind.
1 comment:
A brilliant and irrefutable analysis.
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