Clap for capitalists? They’re lucky we haven’t torn the banks down.

Boris Johnson has just said that people should be out clapping for “our wealth creators, our capitalists, our financiers”. Stating that it is the bankers, the CEOs and people like the Conservative Party’s big money donors who are the most important people in the British economy’s recovery after the pandemic because they take ‘risks’.

It’s important to note who takes the actual risks in a capitalist economy. It’s regular working people who have to take all the risk just to survive. Regardless of how much ‘risk’ the CEO claims to take, it is always the employees who will be struggling for food if the business collapses, not the executives.

It’s not the ultra-rich like Boris Johnson claims, in fact, there is almost nothing short of revolution that can present itself as a serious risk to billionaires. In the pandemic the richest 25 people on the planet have gained $255 billion while millions of people have been forced out of their jobs and some out on to the street through violent evictions.

There is a huge strain on Food Banks with some showing a 300% increase in demand in the last few months. This is because the so-called wealth creators, capitalists and financiers have made an active choice to create a society in which even if you work over 40 hours a week some can barely afford to feed their kids, and in a pandemic people are forced out of work with only the cruel system of universal credit to keep them alive.

Outside of the UK, there are millions of people in refugee camps who barely have basic sanitation and have no opportunity to socially distance amid the pandemic, but these aren’t the people who the government wants to help. The bankers who have millions of pounds at their disposal rally against these refugees being provided safe access to the UK and do nothing to help anyone but themselves.

Lets not clap for capitalists, lets chase them through the streets!

In the same time where the Prime minister is asking people to clap for capitalists, we are seeing historic revolutionary movements across the world. When the President of the USA is publicly discussing anarchists as a serious threat to the capitalist system and there are insurrectionist movements spanning from Chile to Hong Kong and on the streets of the the beast of capitalism and imperialism that is the US itself, it’s clear that there is serious change coming.

We won’t ever achieve serious change by working through the present system, we will take change by smashing the system and building a new world together, with no place for capitalists or financiers. Lets not clap for capitalists, lets chase them through the streets until there is no one stuck out on the street, no one struggling to feed themselves and no one stuck in a system that is destroying the world we live in.