We are offended by applying the description of 'socialism' to any of the
Trotskyite parties, or even to the Labour Party. The Labour party has
never been a socialist party.
“The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there
have always been socialists in it – a bit like Christians in the Church
of England.” (Tony Benn)
It is grossly unjust also to smear people who have joined the Labour
Party in this way, some of them might be, a small minority, not
significant in respect of numbers and those will be practising
'entry-ism' but can easily be expelled later.
Supporting either the top-down machinations of Leninist control freaks
who would only establish a state-capitalist dictatorship over the
workers ,or the 'business friendly Labour party, or any parties of the
left, right, centre of capitalism, who would govern over the workers, is
a deluded choice. Leftist, rightist, centrist, are all manifestations
of types of capitalism and that the term 'leftist' is devoid of any
particular significance.
Capitalism cannot be reformed despite the well-meaning intentions of
decent people in any of those political parties and has to be replaced
by a new system of; production for use; democratic delegation, free
access; and common ownership of all the means and instruments for
creating and distributing wealth run by ourselves. Socialism is a
post-capitalist society which will need to be established by the workers
of the world, by themselves and for themselves.
Labour's infamous Clause 4 reflected their confused understanding of
what socialism is, entails and constitutes. First, it equates common
ownership with state ownership. i.e. Nationalisation. State intervention
is not socialism. The state exists to help manage the affairs of the
ruling class and may indeed intervene in their general interests,
nationalising, welfare, to keep the workers fit for future exploitation
etc. Secondly it calls for the common ownership of the means of
production, distribution and exchange. (our emphasis.) But a real
commonly owned society would not require a means of rationing access to
commonly owned wealth. It is a free access society.
No, the emancipation of the working class is freedom from waged slavery,
common ownership of all the means and instruments for producing and
distributing wealth, production for use, utilising technological and
informational infrastructure to provide self-regulation stock control
systems and free access for all within a delegatory democratic
administration over resources and not people by the people themselves
and not a government.
We have a world to make and win and the organising societal ethos which
will percolate through this, which proceeds from the organising tenet, "From each according to their ability to each according to their needs" will provide the social framework which will shape human behaviour, self-determinedly.
Capitalism cannot be reformed. However, well-intentioned politicians may
be it is not in their gift to bestow upon us more “humble mortals”.
"The emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the
working classes themselves. We cannot, therefore, co-operate with people
who openly state that the workers are too uneducated to emancipate
themselves and must be freed from above by philanthropic big bourgeois
and petty bourgeois.’ (1879 Marx and Engels)
It is a post-capitalist society and damn all to do with nationalisation
or the state-capitalism imposed by the feudal conditions of Russian
experience or the state management over people and resources envisaged
by the Labour Party.
The whole point of capitalism is to keep a relatively impoverished class
of workers toiling away to produce an immense accumulated source of
wealth for the parasite capitalist class and banks are just a money
changing part of this.
"If money, according to Augier, “comes into the world with a
congenital blood-stain on one cheek,” capital comes dripping from head
to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." (Marx)
Dissolve the governments and politicians, elect yourselves into building a socialist world.
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