Why Am I a Socialist?

In his book “A Revolution In the World of Man” the founder of the Progressive Socialist Party the late mentor Kamal Jumblatt raised the question: “Why Am I a Socialist?”


In the following is his answer to the question:


I am a socialist because I love justice, fraternity and freedom.

I am a socialist because whenever I am fair with the others, I feel as if I were fair with myself; and whenever I am unjust with the others, I feel as I were unjust with myself.

I am a socialist because I yearn towards the entente with everybody and towards a global harmony, like the melody which cannot be achieved, unless the different compromises and balances amongst its various tunes are performed. Similarly, the conformity and accord, between the human beings on the one hand and the rights the law and the Natural Code acknowledge to them on the other, should be attained. That is what we call justice.

I am a socialist because I believe that Work cannot be accomplished without Capital, because I believe that Work saved in the powers of nature and in the arm of the individual, who is in reality one of these powers, is a Capital and because I believe that the capabilities of this Capital cannot be executed and remain mere potentials unless they are transformed into Work… 
Thus, Work cannot be separated from Capital, because if it had not been of the Capital, Work would not have existed and Work itself is an achievement of a certain Capital, which is in reality a preserved force of production… But, it is the system of social classes (i.e. the class of the workers and that of the work owners) that has separated and distinguished between Capital and Work, without showing any consideration to the fact that a person cannot, in the frame of Work, be separated from his thought, physical structure and money or from the thought, physical structure and money of another person.

The aim of the Progressive Socialist Party is not to exploit the system of social classes or to use such exploitation as a policy, but it is to abolish this system, according to what has appeared in the covenant of the Party:
“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.”

I am a socialist because I believe that the evil and the original sin, in both the communist systems and the so called capitalist individualistic systems, lie in that irrational cacophony that exists between Capital & Work, which has caused the supremacy of different categories in various regimes.

I am a socialist because I believe in the necessity of the euphony and unity between Work and Capital, which are elements, that cannot be naturally and spontaneously, separated one from the other.

I am a socialist because I believe that Socialism is an attitude that should be established in minds before being established in systems and institutions.