I have been asked to say a few words about the WSP and what it stands for. Due to the great strides during the past hundred years, in science and technology, in the efforts by the capitalist class to increase their profits and to win new markets, the material conditions in 1978 are now ripe for the establishment of Socialism. The very evolution of capitalism itself has solved the problem of production. Nobody starves today because enough cannot be produced. An outstanding illustration is the 1942 issue of the Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture. This report was...
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Although Comrade Rab had been invited to write this by Kerr Company, it was not published until now. They asked Rab to make so many changes that, in the end, he refused. About John Keracher John Keracher was born in Scotland in 1880. He spent rhe early years of his adulthood in England, whete he was exposed to the ideas of the Social Democratic Federation. Thus, his entry into the Detroit Local of the Socialist Parry of America in 1910, soon afrer his arrival in rhe Unired States in 1909, was a natural outgrowrh of his background. As a...
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(The Western Socialist, No.1 – 1967) The Washington Post, Sept. 11, 1965, editorially chided President Johnson for “permitting his enthusiasm to run away with his judgment (in his pledge) not only to reduce crime but to banish It.” We must have a “new approach to crime,” wrote the editor. And he quite properly pointed out that: “Crime is not committed in a vacuum. It is only a product of the environment which this generation and its predecessors have created.. .The crime commissions are likely, therefore, to find themselves wrestling (our emphasis) with the basic social problems of the age.”...
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What should be the minimum requirements for membership of a Socialist Party? They should be broad enough to include all who are Socialists. There is no justification for barring Socialists from membership. They should be narrow enough to exclude all who are not Socialists. Since the criterion for membership is based on whether an applicant is a Socialist or not, it becomes necessary to define what is a socialist. Broadly speaking, a Socialist is one who understands that Capitalism can no longer be reformed or administered in the interests of the working class or of society; that Capitalism is...
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The starting point, or rather, the pivotal centre of our logic is the conception of the universe as being a oneness, a unity, an eternal, absolute truth, all embracing, infinite and unlimited. It is impossible to conceive of anything outside the universe. To attempt it would not only be useless, but folly. The parts composing the universe partake of its infinite nature, i.e., of existence. A mahogany chair has the characteristics of all chairs, regardless of where it is found, on earth or in the heavens above. Yet, at the same time, it is finite. The chair is built,...
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