The Social Capitalist Network (SCN) is an independent non-party association accountable to its own members and no other bodies or interest groups. Its purpose is to promote Social Capitalism throughout parliamentary movements and other political, industrial and trades union bodies worldwide. It is committed to productive industry within each nation-state in promoting the economic and social benefits of the majority and the widest dissemination of financial assets, as opposed to the accumulation of wealth into ever fewer hands. In this respect it promotes personal (or individual) ownership as a human right, and distinguishes this from both "privatisation" and "public ownership" both of which advance gigantism and undermine the essentials for a free and democratic society.