Our
age is one of continuous discovery, yet the problems of humanity
still remain. New technology serves the ends of the capitalist
system. It serves the military. Yet continues to satisfy people's
needs and instead intensifies exploitation.
The Socialist Party must
campaign for uniting and working for socialism. The object of the
Socialist Party is to unite humanity and to solve social problems by
building a society which can satisfy the universal need for
co-operation and security. Socialism is
concerned with the quality of life. In association with others, the
individual will develop oneself as a social being. With enlightenment
and knowledge, mankind will replace the ignorance, false illusions
and prejudice from which it suffers in our own day. Socialism is the
form of society most compatible with the needs of humanity. Its
necessity springs from the enduring problems, the economic
contradictions and social conflicts of present-day society. Life will
be based on human relationships of equality and co-operation. Through
these relationships, man will produce useful things, construct
amenities and establish desirable institutions. Socialism will
resolve the conflicts which at present divide man from man.
Regardless of ethnic or cultural differences, the whole world
community will share a common interest. The
building of Socialism requires a social reorganisation where the
earth's resources and the apparatus of production are held in common
by the whole community. Instead of serving sectional interests, they
are made freely accessible to society as a whole. Production will be
organised at world level with co-ordination of its differing parts
down to local levels. Socialist society will minimise waste and set
free an immense amount of human labour. Armies and armament
industries with their squandering of men and materials will be swept
away. These will disappear together with all the wasteful appendages
of trade and commerce
Under
capitalism science and technology have flowered mainly to serve the
interest of capitalist profit-making. This is the great
contradiction. Mankind has the know-how to end the threat of
environmental destruction. Capitalism cannot avoid a continuing
ferment of discontent, albeit generally expressed in negative ways,
through hate, violence, cynicism and even despair. Paradoxically,
this may help draw attention about where man's true interests lie.
Socialism will mean the free application of human labour to the
earth's resources with the most efficient utilisation and further
development of technology. It will mean a productive system built up
on relations of social equality and adjusted to the idea that mankind
matters most. The greatest challenge facing humanity is the need to
increase the production of wealth on an enormous scale, but this
cannot be done within present capitalist society. People and
resources serve profit. On all sides it can be seen that commerce,
trade and vested interests are preventing man from expanding
production on a scale necessary to serve the community’s needs.
Socialism will provide a social framework that will enable man and
woman to get on with the job. The initial task of producing enough
goods for the whole human family will be a huge one. We do not
underestimate the problems of organisation and production involved,
but to eliminate world poverty must be one of the first tasks of
socialist society. With the end of the market system, people in
socialism would enjoy great advantages in solving the problems of
pollution and environmental degradation. Socialism would also be able
to save on resources by eventually reducing production levels. By
concentrating on the real needs of people socialism would be able to
stop vast numbers of wasteful and destructive jobs that are only
necessary in a profit system. With the end of economic competition,
socialism would not be bound to use the least costly methods of
production, many of which are destructive of the environment
Those
who suffer most from the inequalities of capitalism must do their own
thinking. The responsibility for creating a better world rests with
them. They must consider the socialist argument in the reality of
their everyday experience. Time and again they have shown that they
can cooperate together in causes other than the solution of their own
problems. We invite activists in the
climate movement to join with us now in building a better world. We
must build on the concern and indignation and broaden our horizons.
We should not place our trust and faith in governments; that is a
sure recipe for disaster and disillusion. We must not make pathetic
appeals to governments to do something on our behalf. We must take
the world into our own hands.
What
socialists try to explain is the futility of the climate activists in
demanding in their protests for governments to “do something”,
given that it is these very governments, at the behest of the
capitalist corporations who have caused the global warming crisis to
begin with. So if there are no demands for the end of capitalism then
it will end up a failure. Hopefully, many in the climate movement
will come to understand that the institution of capitalism is
culpable and will begin to work for its abolition.
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