The world is ours to share

 

НЕТВОЙНЕ NO WAR

Capitalism plays upon all the dark sentiments of ignorance, prejudice and superstition. This is seen daily in its endeavours to divide the workers and oppressed people along national, racial and religious lines. We partisans of world socialism remain undaunted holding that vision of the future and hastening its realisation.

 

 We begin from these fundamental propositions:

 

1. Modern wars are part and parcel of the capitalist system.
 

2. Capitalist economy must continually expand or suffer from recession
 

3. Each capitalist represented by the nation is continually driven to seek new markets, new sources of raw materials and new areas for investment.
 

4. Important trade routes must be protected
 

5. There can be no end to war without an end to capitalism.
 

6. Permanent peace is only possible when planned production for use has taken the place of competitive production for profits. Planned production for use on an international scale means a world socialist cooperative commonwealth.

Much of the anti-war movement is a mixture of Utopian pacifism and still a slavish loyalty to capitalism. The mass butchery of war can only bring hunger, misery and poverty to the workers of the world. Only the class war for the overthrow of capitalism can end wars by ending the cause of war capitalism. The solution for the ills of present-day society is common ownership of the industries and production for the social good, instead of profits for the few.

 

Socialism can be achieved only by the will of the people when the conditions have become ripe for the historical changeover from capitalism to socialism. Socialism will thus triumph as the result of the will and actions of the people, and cannot be imposed from outside. 

 

We explain to the workers the irreconcilability between their interests and the interests of bloodthirsty capitalism. We propagate the unity of the workers. It is only workers who can guarantee real peace. Only socialism can end wars by ending the cause of wars – the capitalist system. We must fight against the real cause of war, and against the class that benefits from it. Our enemy is not the Russians or any other worker. It is capitalism everywhere. 

 

The economic processes of capitalism lead, we repeat, to war. The political processes of capitalism, based upon its national and territorially structured State, cannot create peace. Peace can only come from a worldwide commonwealth. 

Capitalism is the basic cause of war in modern times. Capitalism controlled the entire globe and the war resulted from the struggles of the corporations in the leading capitalist countries to re-divide the world, to wrest from each other colonies and markets, cheap labour and raw material supplies. It is capitalism that gives rise to the danger of more wars. Socialism gives a correct analysis of the fundamental reasons for the wars and miseries of our times. The solution is to end the private ownership of the means of production and replace it with social ownership and production planned to meet the people’s needs, that is, socialism.

 

Socialism puts an end to wars and the danger of wars because under socialism there are no capitalists who are interested in war profits and the conquest of new markets. and colonies. 

 

We, socialists, are for the goal of a world administration, which would eliminate the obsolete national boundaries into which the earth is divided. The national boundaries are obsolete not only because they breed fear, but they are also obsolete because they choke and distort the inevitable need for political integration in a world where economic integration is already a fact in various ways. The peoples of the world in the various countries, through coordinated international effort, will progress toward the complete class-free socialist society, all the various workers' organisations which have been instruments and mechanisms of class struggle, that is, the socialist parties, the unions, the cooperatives, the workers’ councils, will gradually lose their original functions and coalesce into one united body. And that one united body will be the organised world society of the free and equal. Our present system has been a pronounced failure. Political parties have failed. There must be unity and cooperation if we are to rise and take upon ourselves the responsibility of proving that we can under the favourable conditions we have around us find the solution to capitalism’s problem.

 

 We can do it. We can if we set our minds upon it.

 

The Socialist Party teaches that the workers of all lands must regard each other as brothers and sisters who stand together in solidarity on behalf of the interests of working people. These interests demand that in order to gain a world of plenty for all, freedom, and permanent peace, the capitalist system must be abolished and replaced with a cooperative commonwealth.

 

The supreme duty of the hour is for us, the socialists of all the world is to dedicate ourselves anew to the principles of international socialism; to strengthen the bonds of working-class solidarity.

 

The Socialist Party extend to the socialists of all the world our greetings and hail them all our brothers and sisters, our comrades.