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We believe that the present system, of capitalism, is not part of an eternal "natural order" of things, not a consequence of "human nature". It is a recent arrival in man's history — and has already been done away with in some parts of the world. In Britain too, its days are numbered. The problems we face — unemployment, poverty, slump, inflation, are not some "illness" of capitalism, they are an essential part of how it works. All these evils are the direct result of the private ownership of wealth, and the consequent exploitation by a few of the mass of the population, the workers who produce all wealth — and whose reward is a tiny pittance. In Britain this disproportion is increasing as more and more wealth is concentrated into the group of fewer and fewer monopolies. This tiny minority of the population holds complete control of the economy and political power, and effectively controls all the machinery of the state, the armed forces, the police, judiciary and upper rank of the Civil Service. The economic and political power of the capitalist class has its couterpart in the domin- ation and control of the production of ideas, through which it maintains the repressive machinery of the state.
