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Anyone with money enough to travel will know that there are still
pockets of calm here and there on this planet, but what is becoming
increasingly difficult to deny is that the world is a mess and is
becoming a bigger and more horrible mess as the days, months and years
go by. Many shut their eyes to it, but quite how long they will be able
to carry on doing so is only a matter for speculation. Large tracts of
Planet Earth are a stinking hole and the stench is wafting in all our
directions.
Among the bourgeois commentators still broadly supporting capitalism,
more and more demonstrate a distaste for its effects. Typical, in BBC
Radio 4's 2001 �Analysis� Lecture was Professor Paul Kennedy. In his
talk to various diplomats, politicians and business leaders he
commented on the dangers global capitalism is already bringing with it.
He asked his audience whether there was a solution to the disturbing
trends encouraged by the spread of the world market and its prevailing
competitive ethos, putting his own views in the following words:
"Perhaps in fact there is no answer and we simply have to brace
ourselves for what [the economist] Schumpeter termed the 'creative
gales' of capitalism. Or perhaps Marx, lying in his grave and at
present almost universally scorned, has a slow smile creeping across
his face as he sees the convulsions ahead. That would be the final, and
greatest, irony of this twentieth century of ours."
Karl Marx, whose works were variously distorted by so many of those who
claimed to be his supporters and ridiculed by his opponents, may indeed
have the last laugh. Though only human and therefore fallible, Marx's
analysis of society has in many respects been proven remarkably
accurate save for one thing � admittedly the most important � his
prediction of socialism.
As capitalism heads deeper into its senility, manifesting new signs of
its obsolescence by the day, it is up to the world-wide working class
of wage and salary earners to fulfil Marx's last hope, though not for
his sake � for our own. Sooner or later, socialism, a system of common
ownership, democratic control and production solely for use will have
to figure on the agenda of the working class if humankind's collective
existence and very survival is not to be put at stake.
It is to facilitate that process that the Socialist Party of Great
Britain and our companion parties in the World Socialist Movement exist
and it is why this series of articles has been written.
Our message to the working class is that capitalism's time has gone.
The choice before us is now "socialism or barbarism", a progressive
move to the next higher stage of social evolution, or a regression from
which we may never recover. The choice is yours � but don't spend a
lifetime thinking about it.
jt
www.worldsocialism.org
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