The Deprogram

the prolecattleiat is not being elevated to sapience

"Look at how connected I am to the people!"

The phrase "Epstein class" is a step closer to class consciousness, not a step away from it. If you tell people there's a bipartisan class of people who are above the law and so wealthy/connected that they control many of the biggest levers of power, they will now know what you're talking about and largely agree. That's a huge break from the standard drivel about "we have an imperfect democracy but it's broadly controlled by the people."

Revolutions and revolts don’t manifest thinly out of air. I remember some libs being bewildered how people could be able to protest „so long“ and then reinventing like supporting people financially while on strike.

The masses are so neutered that even manuals, for example basic socdem union strikes for better work conditions, are not anchored in the American proletariat.

So what can realistically be expected of them?

I could easily believe that trump was personally blackmailed by Israel to go to war with iran with footage acquired by epstein or the likes...

But that's an important distinction between starting the war as a distraction.

And the US would've gone to war anyhow.

An example as a general response to the comments on this thread about apparent concerns about me conflafing white settler nation and imperial core nations with labour aristocracy because of relative internal domestic poverty...

After Brown Vs Board, it got worse for black folks immediately after. White civil society en masse took to further discrimination, lynching and torture against the black population. There was a decrease in black teachers (for example). So what exactly happened here? Integration was a top down initiative from the state, not becauae of a black + white worker collaboration against the capitalist state, but why? Because the state was worried about marxism spreading like wildfire both domestiy and internationally citing US capitalist segregation (including how it dirrctly inspired Nazis). As a concession for this, civil rights groups like the NAACP had to purge communists from their ranks and institutions like HCBUs had to purge them too and many black only shchools lost their licenses to practice too.

When the Obamas of the 21 century point to the progressive nature of the US State - they have realworld examples of the above to point to. The USAmerican state at times had been more progressive than White civil society, which means the institution racism is at service to the white settler nation, not juat the richest few. This should not be a surprise to marxists, because we should know the state exists to protect a class, the question is which class and in this it is the settler nation and the segregation of old was now formenting real revolutionary black movements wielding the science of marxism - an actual threat to capital.

It is partly fucking why when the epstein files were revealed there was no real mass revolt because (1) not a threat to the settler nation (2) this was already well known happening to folks who were not part of the settler nation. It'a like being aghast at ICE killing white folks, when that shit was happening to black folks everyday.

trump was right tbh, he could whack a dude in the middle of madison square garden and he would still win an election.

I do want to point out that Iran also uses the term Epstein class. Not that that's right but just that people here seemed supportive of the term at the time

The Epstein class is just a class so wealthy, they get buy with anything, destroying humans, planets, petty bourgeoisie, economies, governments, while the bourgeoisie and lesser income people may or not, depending on luck, who they know, etc. Epstein class is entirely bipartisan.

Why would the Epstein shit cause class consciousness? Things like him are gonna lead people to resort to conspiracies rather than material analysis for causes.

i mean, what were they expected to do? go kill a bunch of untouchable rich folk? its just more demoralizing. turning it into all kinds of conspiracy garbage instead of focusing on victim advocacy. sad but predictable.

Previously:

What’s unfortunate is that the term [“Epstein class”] will lose its punch over time as people forget this moment. Also that many see this as an anomaly rather than what it really is: a rare peek behind the curtain of how the sausage has always been made.

Well, I know what you mean when you say you're irritated with how people use Epstein Class. (Westoids acting like they can't figure out why they're bombing kids & attributing everything to corruption) I think that it has some utility in describing the cross-class alliance we see in the emails, though. Not everyone involved is international bourgeoisie. You have a lot of labor aristocrats and petty boug in these research departments. Lumpenized American communities are used as a source of flesh. There is complicity across society, a quiet acceptance of the lawless exploitation inherent to treating one's family as part of the property serving as your gateway to retirement treats in exchange for being part of the Epsteins' (Blackrock et al) vast equity pool