Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1917-09-01
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note: .-.-.' :y.!vSj<_st« S£^7m Western Cla The Official Organ of THE SOCIALIST PARTYloFiCANADA No. 796] Vancouver, B. C., September, 1917 [Month 5c to j|he workers of Canada We who address you have a policy distinct and different from that of any other party engaged in this election ||| As workjngmen to workingmen we wish to point out certain facts with regard to conditions as they exist today. Society as at present constituted is based upon the ownership of the means of life—the land, mills, mines, Railroads, etc.—by the capitalist class, in consequence of which the workers, by whose labor wealth alone is produced, are enslaved. There is, therefore, an antagonism of interests between those who pos-. sess but do not produce, and those who produce and do not possess. This antagonism can be abolished only through the emancipation of the working class from the domination of the master class, by transforming the property of the master class into productive forces controlled and administered by the whole of society for the benefit of all. The machinery of the State, including the armed forces—army, - navy, police, judiciary, etc.—exists only to conserve'the interest of the master class. The worker^, therefore, must organize on class conscious lines for the purpose of capturing the powers of government, *so that these forces may be converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation. Since all political parties are the expression of certain class interests, and as the interests of the workers is opposed to the interests of all sec tions of the master Class, the party whose object is working class emancipation must be hostile to every other party. The Socialist Party of Canada, therefore, enters this election campaign for the purpose of giving expression to the war it must wage against all other political parties, whether alleged LABOR or avowedly CAPITALIST. That was the position put forward by the party three years ago. And that position has been proven …
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
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language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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