In the following is the text of the first publication issued in the history of the Progressive Socialist Party, in which its principles are summarized:
For several thousand years, the evolution of human societies remained limited within a certain scope: The tribalist system, the feudal system, the system of the bourgeoisie, manufactures and small property owners, then the cycle returned to the feudal system and so on…
However, the machine and modern industry, along with the development they generated in the human society, broke that vicious circle and led the human evolution into a virgin path… Thus, the economic institutions and technical status of the collectivity have precedence over the juridical, political and social rules, which in their majority are actually inherited from the Middle Ages and even some of them are the residues of the Stone Age.
It appears to any analyst of the general trend of evolution that Marxism has been in its reality a form and a way to establish a tendency and an idea of justice as well as human fraternity, which have been summarized by its founder in two stages:
1. Securing the reasons for living and for the development of the collectivity on the basis of the principle: to everybody what he or she deserves.
2. Securing the reasons for living and for the development of the collectivity on the basis of the principle: to everybody what he or she needs.
The Progressive Socialist Party emanated in reality from this tendency and from this idea of justice and human fraternity that find their sentience deeply rooted in the history of human thought and action, from the oldest past to the nearest present.
The Party will not restrict itself to halfway measures that have no other goal except to soften the acuteness of the working class’ struggle and to curb its drive by creating divisions amongst its ranks, in order to gain as much time as possible, so as to continue the exploitation of the labor of these lively active forces… On the contrary, the Party will fight against these unfaithful tendencies and abolish them in cooperation with all those loyal to the cause.
The historical struggle between the classes, that has used up the forces of the human race and its potentials and has weakened its efforts through internal and continuous disagreements and disputes, should be abolished. These forces, efforts and potentials should be transformed and should work jointly together to discover and understand the secrets of nature and the human soul, in order to be able to gain control over them and to proceed, therefore, in the path of evolution towards accomplishing and achieving the human being. That cannot take place, unless we fuse the individuals and the groups in a stable social unity, which is aware of its destiny and supported by the forces of Love and Rapprochement, which are the universal forces of evolution.
Hence, it is not strange at all that the P.S.P. insists on executing its social and economic principles comprehensively, because they are a manifestation of justice and human fraternity that the Party has emanated from and has been aiming at, in its difficult struggle as appears in its covenant.
We can summarize the principles and the basics Progressive Socialism is based on, by the following:
1. Progress: which means choosing the beneficial from the various human experiences in the different fields.
2. Socialism: which is a social and economic system that aims at accomplishing social justice, parity of opportunities and the spirit of initiative in work for everybody according to his or her abilities and potentials.
3. Democracy: which is a system that aims at securing the freedoms and the basic moral, political, social and economic rights to the citizens. It is, practically, a system of consultation emanating from the will of the people, who are to be governed in spontaneous coalitions around their collective interests and activities.
The reasons, which justify Progressive Socialism, are:
1. The spontaneous tendency of human beings towards social association and grouping.
2. The natural tendency of human beings towards freedom, equality and securing the livelihood.
3. The spontaneous justice that imposes parity between the reward and individual work and assures the possibility for all individuals to earn their living and to insure their physical and mental safety.
The reasons that drive the world towards socialism are:
1.The apparent disagreement between the economic situations and developed means of knowledge on the one hand and the established legal systems on the other. This disagreement causes a disorder in production and in distribution and gives birth to economic crises, which in their turn result in social damages.
2.The consciousness of the working and producing classes of the fact that they are being exploited by certain individuals and groups along with their refusal of the perpetuation of this exploitation.
3.The increased awareness of these classes with respect to the fact that every human being has natural forces that allow him or her to produce at equal grounds with everybody, including those who control the means of production and distribution.
4.The evolving feeling of acquired human solidarity in the civilized societies, which drives the human beings in the path of cooperation & mutual assistance.
5.The human beings’ need to be liberated from fear, poverty, ignorance and sickness.
Progressive Socialism is applied through:
First: Defining the technical, economic and financial potentials of the society.
Second: Collective ownership of the means of production and of the essential services of public interest, according to the technical and financial capabilities.
Third: Giving the worker a share of the profits of production to the extent that permits the perpetuation of this production and its development.
Fourth: Insuring work, education, peaceful means of recreation, medical treatment as well as the artistic and moral culture to everybody and securing the living to the elderly, handicapped, minors and to the involuntarily unemployed.
