Under
capitalism, a class divided society resting upon the exploitation of
wage-labour, social justice is a contradiction in terms, a vague
platitude, a mere piece of political phrase-mongering. So-called
justice and injustice co-exist within the framework of the
private-property relationship of capitalism and are conditioned by
the class interest of the people involved. Justice from the
standpoint of the capitalist class must equate to the legal
recognition and enforcement of their minority monopoly of the means
of production. Since this leaves the working dais without means of
production, a socially inferior class compelled to sell their
physical and mental energies in order to live, the whole edifice of
capitalism rests upon built-in privilege and inequality. The
Socialist Party has always maintained that even if all the promises
and reform proposals of the reformist parties were carried out, the
poverty and insecurity of workers would remain. In fact it is the
continuing poverty a…
Thursday, July 4,7:00 pm The Quaker Hall, Victoria Terrace (above Victoria Street), Edinburgh EH1 2JL
The Socialist Party often explains that the majority of the working class are capable of understanding socialism. This being so, our critics will ask, “Why then, are there not many more socialists?” At present the vast number of workers mistakenly view the solution to their problems in reforming capitalism in one way or another. Capitalism itself is not questioned, it is only the patching up of its effects that is attempted.
The Socialist Party often explains that the majority of the working class are capable of understanding socialism. This being so, our critics will ask, “Why then, are there not many more socialists?” At present the vast number of workers mistakenly view the solution to their problems in reforming capitalism in one way or another. Capitalism itself is not questioned, it is only the patching up of its effects that is attempted.