In their Party Political Broadcast last Thursday, the Greens’ leader Zach Polanski ran through the problems people face and pointed out that a lot of the wealth ends up in the pockets of the super-rich. But went on: “This isn’t just an economic failure. It’s a failure of leadership. The people we elected choose to serve the wealthy … Good leaders put people before profit”.
The people workers elect don’t choose to serve the wealthy. Capitalism, as a profit-making system that can only work for the profit-takers, obliges them to do this. Replacing them with “good leaders” won’t change things.
What is needed is to realise that no leader can do anything for us.