We must think about the permanent solution to the problems of the world. To try to fix a broken system with broken tools simply doesn’t work. By virtue of the present system itself society is unsocial in every aspect of the word. No reforms or palliatives can possibly improve the condition of the working class for any period, it is the wages system that is the cause of all the ills which are rampant to-day, and until that system is abolished the Socialist Party can confidently predict that the condition of the working class will gradually become worse. Socialism is the only system yet advanced which claims to offer humanity a world devoid of poverty. The Socialist Party does not desire to impose any rules or conditions on society. All he asks is that society will consciously apply principles for the benefit of society as a whole.
History has been tales of misery, exploitation and oppression, barbaric cruelty, repression and the horrors of war. These have not been the exception but the rule. On the one hand a tiny minority have lived in all the luxury. On the other the majority who have waged a life-long struggle simply to survive. From our experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic we no longer need the Marxists to tell us that it working people who are the source of wealth. We make society run smoothly.
We are living under a system which is more and more clearly revealed as the enemy of humanity. It has vast productive potential, but only means poverty and oppression. It brings hunger and deprivation to the working people. It imposes draconian cuts in living standards on the already suffering poor simply in the interest of still greater profits for the capitalist class. Capitalism is responsible for the thoughtless destruction of the environment. The profit motive is incompatible with safeguarding the world’s resources. So long as it is profitable, environmental destruction is perfectly ’logical’ under capitalism. There is destruction of indigenous people and their sustainable ways of life; hijacking of fertile land for cash-crops and clearance of forest for cattle ranching. Humanity’s problem is not limited resources but the waste of resources which is an essential part of the process of capital accumulation.
Its armaments industry monopolises most of the world’s research and development and cynically profits from a series of local wars of unparalleled destructiveness. The root cause of all this is capitalism’s guiding principle, the quest for profit, which takes precedence over any human interest. Capitalism as a system undermines the future of humanity. Today more than ever capitalism brings nothing but misery and exploitation. It is an obsolete system, and the productive forces and technology it has created will be turned to the benefit of humanity as a whole under a new social system.
Capitalism cannot be reformed. Today the destructive threat of capitalism is so acute that humanity cannot afford the luxury of tinkering with palliatives. It has undergone many changes in its history, but these have simply meant finding new ways to exploit the labouring people. The only solution is to end it and build a new social system. Worldwide, an upsurge of socialism is bound to come. It is more and more apparent that profit is an absurd principle by which to organise the world’s resources.
The socialist society of the future will draw its strength from the new organisational forms thrown up by the workers’ movement.
History has been tales of misery, exploitation and oppression, barbaric cruelty, repression and the horrors of war. These have not been the exception but the rule. On the one hand a tiny minority have lived in all the luxury. On the other the majority who have waged a life-long struggle simply to survive. From our experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic we no longer need the Marxists to tell us that it working people who are the source of wealth. We make society run smoothly.
We are living under a system which is more and more clearly revealed as the enemy of humanity. It has vast productive potential, but only means poverty and oppression. It brings hunger and deprivation to the working people. It imposes draconian cuts in living standards on the already suffering poor simply in the interest of still greater profits for the capitalist class. Capitalism is responsible for the thoughtless destruction of the environment. The profit motive is incompatible with safeguarding the world’s resources. So long as it is profitable, environmental destruction is perfectly ’logical’ under capitalism. There is destruction of indigenous people and their sustainable ways of life; hijacking of fertile land for cash-crops and clearance of forest for cattle ranching. Humanity’s problem is not limited resources but the waste of resources which is an essential part of the process of capital accumulation.
Its armaments industry monopolises most of the world’s research and development and cynically profits from a series of local wars of unparalleled destructiveness. The root cause of all this is capitalism’s guiding principle, the quest for profit, which takes precedence over any human interest. Capitalism as a system undermines the future of humanity. Today more than ever capitalism brings nothing but misery and exploitation. It is an obsolete system, and the productive forces and technology it has created will be turned to the benefit of humanity as a whole under a new social system.
Capitalism cannot be reformed. Today the destructive threat of capitalism is so acute that humanity cannot afford the luxury of tinkering with palliatives. It has undergone many changes in its history, but these have simply meant finding new ways to exploit the labouring people. The only solution is to end it and build a new social system. Worldwide, an upsurge of socialism is bound to come. It is more and more apparent that profit is an absurd principle by which to organise the world’s resources.
The socialist society of the future will draw its strength from the new organisational forms thrown up by the workers’ movement.
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