Chapotraphouse

By itself, nothing; or even harmful to our movements.

But it is opening a lot of people up to class based critiques and radical demands. Practical application of criticism and demands is the foundation of Marxist political organizing.

The conspiracy theorist believes that once people know the truth, they will rise up. That sentence alone has three distinct idealist abstractions. But contemplation is half of praxis. If people are thinking about changing their conditions they can be motivated to take action. We can't build our movement on the basis of Marxist theory alone, Marxist theory is how we learn to take the nascent revolutionary potential of the working class and develop it on an actual political basis. The Epstein files provides that basis.

Revolutionary strategy is connecting the contents of the files to the rest of the struggle against racism, nationalism, queer and trans phobia; and help people understand these as fundamental class antagonisms created by capitalism.

Teaching people to think is teaching people to act. So the Epstein files alone could actually hurt consciousness. Therefore their release met with inaction from leftists could be disastrous for our movements.