What is the World Socialist Movement (WSM)?
The World Socialist Movement is an organization which began with the founding of the Socialist Party of Great Britain in 1904. The Companion Parties of Socialism, which make up the World Socialist Movement, are those parties sharing an understanding of what socialism means, how to establish socialism, and a scientific analysis of past and current society. For more information about the WSM, see Introducing the World Socialist Movement on the World Socialist Movement web site. • What makes the World Socialist Movement different? Other parties sacrifice almost any “principle” to get elected or stay in power. The sole object of the World Socialist Movement is to establish socialism and the Companion Parties in the WSM campaign only for socialism. The World Socialist Movement couldn’t run capitalism any better than the other parties and so hasn’t tried to get elected to run capitalism (even with so-called “socialistic” changes). Socialism will not come into existence by making incremental
