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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
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