The Epstein class has an Israeli-backed plan to weaponize organized crime, & terrorize the people into submission

When it comes to the long-term designs of the Epstein class, an insightful resource is the Israeli-backed psyop book Bronze Age Mindset. Its author, the Greek right-wing polemicist who goes by “Bronze Age Pervert,” had been in contact with Israel’s influence network by the time he came out with the book in 2018. He’d been befriended by Edward Luttwak, the geo-strategist who’s done work for the Zionist occupier’s military and therefore is part of the global intelligence operations that Epstein was at the center of. It’s in Bronze Age Mindset where we find a series of predictive programming narratives, designed to recruit BAP’s audience of disillusioned men into assisting with the next schemes of Zionist billionaires.

One of these schemes was about the super rich fleeing to secluded areas away from a collapsing civilization, after which they’ll expand their private mercenary companies and cultivate new far-right personalities to manage the masses:

I believe that at some point, before or after the troubles, the superior specimens are going to find each other and leave this civilization. They will form fortresses on the edge of the civilized world, in the tropics, from where they will watch the seas. The era of high piracy will return. Such men will develop above all their physical powers and their ability to wage war. They will offer the nations defense in exchange for a price. Occasionally they will send a great demagogue into the peoples, when this becomes necessary. Such men, perched atop these eagles’ nests, will have the territory of a new frontier again, and a life that suits them. Science will be liberated from the constraints of caring for comfort or entertainment. Great projects in science, 

the projects of private men, will once again begin. Such fortresses will possess frightful weapons to defend themselves, and will have penetrated deep into the nations their antennae and their many emissaries and watchers.

This is the kind of control that the Epstein class seeks to gain in the midst of the world’s growing instability, and such language is the means through which their psychological operatives prime certain audiences for these new phases within capitalism. It’s through this lens that we must interpret BAP’s call for the right-wing movement to infiltrate organized crime, including the enterprises that he describes as being “much worse” than ordinary prostitution or pornography:

To be effective in this world you must be very well-acquainted with the underworld, with criminal life, with junkies, dealers, prostitutes, gamblers, with the perviest of pervs. And this is what I mean by the great down-going. To gain a true hold on the foundations of this trash-world, a certain group among the right will have to descend in this inferno. I am firmly convinced that this is the key to overturning everything that is corrupt, and the path to the great purgation. I imagine a network of brothels and gambling- houses around the world, production of porn videos, and a complete penetration of the world of vice. Yes, to ensnare, to compromise, to corrupt, and above all to observe and to know their secrets. To descend into a floating world of complete vice, and even to engage in it—as you must if you are to thrive in this world—while keeping your head and keeping in focus the fire of your aim...isn’t this a great and very difficult achievement? 

This path must be only for very few, very few are suited to it. But these few are to be among the greatest of the coming generation. This brotherhood will work instead to intensify vice, to stir up demonic passions, to sow total confusion in the heart of the beast. The increase of chaos, confusion and pressure on the Leviathan will lay it low: imagine even a world where the people, under relentless assault of contradictory and wild claims, would lose all faith in the media and government and doctors and believe nothing they hear through official channels anymore. This would be an order of knights of the spirit such as exists at most every thousand years. Slowly, maybe over two generations, they will work patiently, exploring and laying claims to all the sewers of the underworld, all the effluences of the Leviathan, all the joints of the lower skeleton that undergirds this world. They will take over night clubs, bars, brothels, hotels, casinos, pornography, and much worse, and rather than live to insulate themselves from the vice promoted by this world, they will intensify it and learn to wield it as a great weapon.

The hope of the actors behind this psyop is that as our society becomes more lumpenized, as more of the people come to rely upon renegade sources of income, these “superior specimens” will be able to apply their model of control from the Epstein abuse ring on a wider scale. Bruce Franklin described how such forces of ruling-class degeneracy seduce lumpenized men into becoming agents for their destructive designs, and how the working-class movement can also draw these individuals into revolutionary politics:

In Germany, the lumpenproletariat was the main source of shock troops for Naziism. Anyone who worships the spontaneity of unemployed youth should be reminded of the Brownshirts. In the United States, unemployed white youth are a fertile breeding place for the worst forms of racism, national chauvinism], and the cult of the super-male. This is particularly true in the South, in the urban areas into which the dispossessed rural whites have been driven, and in European ethnic neighborhoods. And among these people there is no clear dividing line between lumpenproletariat and white working class. 

The Young Patriots and Young Partisans have shown that these people are capable of becoming not only revolutionaries but revolutionary leaders. And the only way for them to do this, as both groups have shown, is by organizing around the principle of serving the most oppressed and exploited people in American society. The lumpenproletariat know what it is to be on the bottom, to be mashed into the gutter by the whole weight of an imperialist structure. They share the degradation of the wretched of the whole earth. At every moment two paths are possible for them. One is to turn their hatred against other victims, against each other, against themselves. They can put on the uniform of the U.S. Marines and butcher Vietnamese peasants, they can prey on their brothers and sisters in the streets, or they can shoot their own veins full of poison. The other path is the path of their own liberation.

It is this task of providing an alternative path, of building organizational structures that can rescue someone from tragedy, that’s been undertaken by Haiti’s ascendant popular revolutionary movement. The central figure in this movement is Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, who deserves the credit for successfully uniting the gangs and leading a war against the colonial forces. To properly talk about the revolution Haiti is undergoing right now, though, we have to recognize the movement as a product of the country’s masses. U.S. propaganda has portrayed Barbecue as a monstrous criminal figure, equivalent to the CIA’s cartels; but if Barbecue’s power came from being a criminal butcher against the people, like is the case for the Epstein class and their lackeys, then he wouldn’t have the kind of broad support that he does. 

His movement has been able to build a community-based structure for keeping neighborhoods safe, and has created a foundation for educating the youth. This has ended dependence on the colonial police, and has prevented youths from being taken in by the mercenary organizations of the fascist colonial forces. It’s directed the lumpen away from the dark paths, in a society that’s been lumpenized in extreme proportions. This is something that U.S. working-class organizers need to study in order to take Marxism into the future, and bring the American masses into the revolutionary struggle. Because the USA is absolutely on the path to becoming lumpenized, likely to the same degree that’s happened in Haiti. Our enemies understand this, and so they’ve put together a plan to politicize the criminal networks via right-wing infiltration. When it comes to winning in a lumpenized environment, the model that we can learn from is the one which Barbecue’s movement has developed.

The future is the Epstein class—with its basis in child sexual exploitation, organ trafficking, and other degenerate structures—vs the popular revolutionary movement, with its basis in the collective organizations that can lift impoverished communities out of their lumpen status. The American communist movement has already been going in the direction of replicating the Barbecue movement, as is evident in how prominent U.S. Marxist-Leninists have come out against the propaganda narratives about Barbecue. Our enemies have responded, of course, by depicting us as apologists for a monstrous leader; and they’ve found allies within the parts of Haitian society which hate Barbecue for personal reasons. In time, when American communism and its anti-Epstein coalition grow strong enough, the enemy will mobilize the layers in American society that would also oppose a revolutionary project. 

Part of this layer will be the right-wing criminal structure, which the intelligence agencies have no doubt long been working to build. Another part of it will be the “excess” or lumpenized men who’ve been joining ICE en masse, which will let them take part in a legal paramilitary terrorist effort. These are the tools of America’s own “Jakarta method,” where a capitalist state carries out mass killings to crush the working class. Our task is to thwart this attempt at a purge by mastering the tools which have been presented to us; tools that came into existence because of America’s lumpenization, and can be used for either demonic evils or righteous resistance.

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The attempt to sell AOC’s imperialism to Gen Z, & the solidarity movement that can break this psyop

The post-Covid generation’s break from Kamala Harris over Gaza must precipitate a break from AOC over all of her pro-imperialist positions. Waging this ideological struggle is critical to defending Palestine, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and all other places whose people are under attack from Washington’s expanding aggressions. It’s how we defeat a psyop that the ruling class views as critical towards enabling this offensive; the psyop where the Democratic Party plans to sell AOC, or some other faux-radical candidate, as the leader who’s supposedly broken from the Biden administration’s genocidal legacy.

It isn’t too difficult to expose AOC over the most obvious ways she’s harmed international solidarity. AOC’s complicity in the Iron Dome, and loyalty to the Democratic candidates who’ve directly perpetuated Gaza’s holocaust, are things that can easily shake the trust of the average Gen Z member. The post-Covid generation have already advanced in consciousness to the point where they reject “progressive” Zionism’s insidious rationalizations, where someone can claim to be pro-Palestine while still supporting “defense” against Palestinian “terrorism.” Two-thirds of Gen Z support Hamas over the Zionist occupier, which is why the architects of Zionist manipulation have decided they need to give up the pretense of democracy. 

The Heritage Foundation’s plan to purge institutions of pro-Palestine individuals is what will win out within ruling-class politics; the purpose AOC serves is to lead the pro-Palestine movement into a dead-end. The way we rescue the movement from this trap is by both combating the justifications for “soft” Zionism, and bringing the discourse towards solidarity with the other peoples Washington seeks to crush. 

Something Marxists can contribute within this discourse is a defense of socialist Korea, the country that’s done the most to assist Palestine’s liberation struggle. We must show how the DPRK’s economic system is not the backward kleptocracy that the social fascists portray it as. In reality, this system is the Korean people’s means for self-defense against the starvation sanctions that Washington is subjecting many other countries to, and that the DPRK used to be much more severely impacted by. 

Since the brutal shock that came with losing the Soviet Union’s assistance, the DPRK has carried out development that is spectacular. The DPRK ally Dermot Hudson reported about these achievements this year:

Rather than “everyone starving,” we saw no homeless or beggars on the streets and the guide for another delegation said that people received free housing and food that only costs 30 cents per month. Now the construction of the 4th stage of Hwasong Street is under way; I saw it with my own eyes. This rapid development is being carried out under conditions of intense sanctions by the imperialists as well as natural disasters and the DPRK’s border being closed for four years due to the global health crisis. It is a miracle of self-reliance and shows what a socialist country can do when it relies on its own resources and believes in itself…In recent years a new trope of anti-DPRK propaganda has emerged, namely, that the DPRK “abandoned Marxism-Leninism” or “deleted reference to Marxism-Leninism” but clearly, from what we saw, such assertions did not fit reality. Based on what I saw with my own eyes in the DPRK, the sanctions policy of the U.S. and its allies is a flop, a pathetic failure.

Resources like this one are so important to bring into the conversation around AOC because even though AOC’s hypocrisy is obvious, the false “socialism” that AOC represents depends on ignorance about these realities. It depends on the success of narratives like “the DPRK has abandoned socialism,” which are there to keep the people in the dark about what socialism actually means and who our true allies are as workers. For our purposes as international solidarity organizers in America, combating these myths is one of the most important things we can do. 

When we defeat the anti-DPRK propaganda, the Uyghur genocide lie, and the other psychological weapons of communism’s enemies, we’ll be in place to take our solidarity movements to the next phase. A phase where we’ve escaped the cycle of stagnation and burnout that’s afflicted our movements for so many decades.

The pro-Palestine movement has thus far failed to stop Gaza’s holocaust for the same reason that America’s left has long been trapped in inertia. Part of this failure comes from lack of consistent solidarity; for instance, the bulk of the left “supports” Palestine, yet is against Palestine’s greatest ally the DPRK. There has been a deeper reason for the inertia, though, which is that up until very recently American “socialism” was really just talk. There have been plenty of figures and orgs that claim the “socialist” label, but they haven’t had the will or the means to take on a real role within the global class war. Then in 2022, when Russia launched its intervention to stop Kiev’s genocide against the Donbass, these forces came across an actual opportunity to test their aptitude within the historical struggle.

The initial test was about whether you, as a socialist, were willing to get behind this new anti-fascist war. And this test has remained relevant, but it’s since become just one part of a larger test, made more demanding due to the accelerated geopolitical developments we’ve experienced in recent years. Russia’s action helped inspire Palestine’s resistance to launch the Al Aqsa Flood operation. This victory for the liberation forces, and the U.S. empire’s genocidal response to it, demanded that we all keep Palestine solidarity at the core of our practice. Which would prove to be a challenge, because there have been numerous opportunistic forces which seek to lead us away from focusing on the genocide. There’s been Trump 2.0, with its false promises of “peace deals,” as well as social democracy, with its lies about being able to defeat the Zionist establishment through reforms.

Social democracy can’t defeat Zionism because it’s a Zionist tendency itself. This is the contradiction that Gen Z are encountering when it comes to AOC, and now Mamdani: no path within the Democratic Party can offer an authentic anti-Zionist politics, because the Democratic Party is where movements go to die. The next step is to discover what real socialist politics look like, as demonstrated by China, the DPRK, and the other existing or historic workers states; as well as understand the why behind the achievements of these socialist projects. They’ve succeeded in lifting up the living standards of their people because of popular struggle, combined with a commitment to investigating reality and testing out social practice. This is the essence of dialectical materialism. 

The growing attention upon Cuba, prompted by Washington’s genocidal starvation campaign against it, can serve as a way to familiarize Americans with the dialectical model behind Cuba’s governance. And such mass education will be able to rescue Cuba’s people, if we do our utmost to organize these Americans towards sabotaging the blockade. Key to doing so is seeing how we got to this point in history, and what exactly the role of the working-class movement must be under today’s circumstances. 

Washington has taken the blockade this far because it’s gotten away with so much in Gaza, it’s decided to start applying the same policy of “submit or starve” to every other people who it can starve. Cuba isn’t yet in position to circumvent the effects of Washington’s economic warfare like the DPRK can. But it will become that strong, as will Palestine and all other imperial victims, when the revolutionary struggle has advanced enough. As Americans, our part in this right now is to break the power of the social fascists, and bring millions into a version of the communist movement which understands its role within the global conflict that’s taking place. 

It is looking like the next phase in this conflict will be for Washington to start war with Iran. When this happens, the only way forward for our movement will be to connect with the wide range of Americans who’ve already turned against the deep state, and will be radicalized by the next big war. We must build a coalition between the disillusioned Gen Z socialists, the disillusioned MAGA supporters, and the others who seek an end to their government’s offensive. This is the mandate history has given us.

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The gender war psyop is about finding scapegoats for American civilization’s collapse

The algorithms are pushing gender-based relationship resentment because this is how to shift the blame for the collapse our civilization is experiencing. Our rulers chose to propagate gender divisions for a very specific reason, one that’s distinct from the reasons behind when they promote racism. Gender discourses have come to be at the center of today’s culture because at this stage in capital’s crisis of overproduction, every new generation keeps having less children than the last.

There’s a reason why this is only happening in the richest countries: in a society that’s abundant with money and consumer goods, while at the same time subject to gargantuan increases in the cost of living, its people are going to view having children as something that doesn’t make rational sense.

This is part of the destruction that capital inflicts upon social structures. A destruction where as the productive forces can ever-greater ability to produce, the human labor that society has traditionally needed becomes unnecessary. Marx pointed out how “Capital drives beyond national barriers and prejudices as much as beyond nature worship, as well as all traditional, confined, complacent, encrusted satisfactions of present needs, and reproductions of old ways of life. It is destructive towards all of this, and constantly revolutionizes it, tearing down all the barriers which hem in the development of the forces of production, the expansion of needs, the all-sided development of production, and the exploitation and exchange of natural and mental forces.” This is a progressive process, becoming more advanced as the technology develops and lets old parts of life become outmoded.

Referring to the labor relations that are at the heart of economics—and, regarding this analysis, at the heart of what lets families exist—Marx wrote that “A revolution in the forces of production further alters these relations, changes these relations themselves, whose foundations – from the standpoint of capital and hence also of that of realization through exchange – always remains the relation of necessary to surplus labour, or, if you like, of the different moments of objectified to living labour. It is possible, as we have already indicated earlier, that the capital as well as the living labour capacity set free owing to the increase in productive forces must both lie dormant, because they are not present in the proportions in which production must take place on the basis of the newly developed productive forces. If it proceeds regardless of that, then ultimately a minus, a negative magnitude, will come out of the exchange on one side or the other.” 

He explained the effect this has on the lives of human beings, with “men” being used here to describe both sexes: “The devaluation of the world of men is in direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things.”

I have included these quotes because they’re vital to putting in perspective the economic collapse that we’re experiencing. This is a collapse where the old industrial means of subsistence have been replaced by “bullshit jobs,” which are themselves now becoming insanely scarce. How this connects to the decline in families is that the productive gains which come from having children, or the mutual economic benefits that come from getting married, are being outmoded by the substitutes which have appeared. Or at least they’re outmoded under the present system, which completely prioritizes monetary gain at the expense of humanity.

This is where we’ve gotten the phenomenon of more and more men being turned into “excess males” because women are no longer as economically dependent on men, while becoming economically successful in general has become harder and harder. These factors have created an elitist dating culture where the tiny minority of successful men have become favored in massive disproportion. This is a real problem that’s emerged. But something critical to remember is that this particular attitude towards low-income men only exists inside a certain layer of our society, this being the bourgeois layer that’s by far the most culturally visible. 

The “dating market” of 2026 is a deeply bizarre world, where individuals from the owning class and the professional-managerial class define the rules of gender relations. Its guiding cultural hegemony is completely detached from the experience of the working class, who’ve been increasingly shut out of participating in it and don’t have the platform to combat the strange bourgeois ideas about what relationships mean. To defeat the gender war psyop—and in turn save the family from being destroyed by capital—we have to recognize the context in which this destructive culture exists. 

The only way that this gender dynamic could come into being was through a historical process where, within the core imperialist countries, society first became "bourgeoisified" and then became de-industrialized. To be included within “normal” life, and have access to the path that lets you start a family, you had to be able to attain prosperity within the society that’s most rife with overproduction. Then this society experienced crisis after crisis after crisis, each one cutting off that access to more people. 

Marx wrote of how “the destruction of value and capital which takes place in a crisis coincides with – or means the same thing as – a general growth of the productive forces, which, however, takes place not by means of a real increase of the productive force of labour (the extent to which this happens in consequence of crises is beside the point here), but by means of a decrease of the existing value of raw materials, machines, labour capacity.” It was in the wake of this destruction that the ideology behind the gender war psyop could arise. 

For example: the impulse to treat most men with disgust because most of them have failed to attain a bourgeoisified lifestyle could only become widespread after an advanced stage in capitalist decline. After society within the heart of global capital had set an unparalleled living standard for its people, and then ripped away the means for living up to this standard. 

This attitude that the left-behind men deserve their suffering is one version of bourgeois culture’s reaction to inequality, where poverty is seen as an individual failure. Here, this reaction has just been reframed as a way to empower women. This is the class character of the anti-male side in the gender wars. 

The misogynist side is different in its grievances, but it’s also based in the bourgeois framework of discourse, and its propagators are also boosted by the algorithms. It tries to get working class men to view women as their class enemies, with this effort usually coming in the form of low-IQ social media takes that fuel a vague resentment. The common messages these statements convey is that “women are shallow,” or “women are boring.” They don’t directly address class because capitalist psyops want us to stay away from that subject, but the superficial traits they talk about are the traits of humanity’s exploiters.

Every aspect of the gender war psyop depends on the working class experience being hidden, so that only the bourgeois perspective on gender relations is visible. In the culture that our ruling class has constructed, only the minority who’ve managed to become bourgeoisified deserve respect, with everyone else being ignored or looked down upon. This mentality is absorbed by everyone who hasn’t been confronted with the experiences that make somebody become disillusioned with class society. In the last fifteen years or so, enough people have become class-conscious in this way that the right wing can no longer use its old propaganda of “if you’re struggling in life then it’s always your fault alone.” However, a place in our culture where this kind of cruelty can still be practiced is the gender wars, with the targets being the “excess males.”

The purpose of this narrative, and the other gender war narratives, is to prevent the re-emergence of working class solidarity in this country. And we can rebuild such solidarity, but only if we wage an uncompromising war against the stupidity that our rulers propagate. The communist movement needs to actually provide an answer to the conditions being faced by the post-Covid generation’s “left-behinds,” who have no reason to join a movement that’s detached from what they’re actually being subjected to. Part of this means identifying the class antagonists towards them, which the psyop has presented through a gendered lens but truly comes from a global financial structure. 

This structure is what’s hollowed out America’s economy, then created an environment where Gen Z men and women mostly are not coming into contact and are rarely having children. Global banking responded to the growing contradictions in the productive forces by shipping out America’s industry, while waging war against working class men and women in different ways. Millions and millions of men have become untouchables under this system, partly because they’re now isolated from the women who are in their own class. The system has cultivated a layer of bourgeoisified women, elevated by the feminist campaign within the corporate world, who these left-behind men of course can’t even relate to. And in this last decade in particular, an additional trend has emerged, one where massive numbers of working-class women have joined the lumpenproletariat by becoming part of the sex industry. This has happened at the exact same time that a wildly unprecedented proportion of men have been rendered “excess.”

The foundations for a future like this one were laid a long time ago, and we were all blindsided when the collapse became advanced enough that it created today’s birthrate crisis. The decisive factor was when we allowed our rulers to rob us of the community spaces that used to let working-class men and women come into contact with each other, and build lives based on their shared experiences. This is the true source of the tragedy we’re experiencing, not phones and screens. The post-Covid generation only spends so much with screens because their access to healthy activities has been massively reduced. 

For the victims of this tragedy, the only way to go is forward. The only thing to do is start running in the same direction, and concentrate this generation’s collective energy around overthrowing our banking dictatorship. In the absence of a “normal” life, this is the goal for the left-behinds to concentrate their time and their effort around.

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Trump & AOC are both driving forth unrestrained imperial assault. Yemen & Palestine show how to fight back.

What does it tell us that the president who was supposed to bring spectacular “peace” deals has fully taken the mask off of U.S. imperialism’s violence? That Iran is under likely unprecedented threat from Washington, less than a year after Trump 2.0 was pretending to be interested in de-escalation? It tells us that the anti-imperialist movement can only succeed when it’s given up all bourgeois illusions about class reconciliation, and come to base itself within the proletarian struggle. As long as our movement entertains these illusions, and acts like the material interests driving imperialist war can be neutralized through negotiations or reforms, the movement will keep failing.

When we within the empire’s heart have given up these dangerously harmful ideas, we’ll be able to take example from the struggles of the Global South, which by their nature are not as susceptible to reformist idealism. Forces like Yemen’s Ansarallah, or Palestine’s resistance, exist in contexts where the people have been forced into desperation; so the tendencies that promise reconciliation with the aggressors can’t even gain a foothold within these forces. The masses by necessity embrace the popular revolutionary struggle, as it’s their only path besides destruction. 

With this perspective about what anti-imperialist struggle looks like in its raw, pure form, we see that this struggle cannot be “de-classed,” as the reformists wish could be done. Yemen did not break free from international finance capital, and get a government that represents the people’s revolutionary desires, by working out a deal with the Zionists and the imperialists. It got this far by applying a technologically updated version of Che Guevara’s guerrilla warfare strategy, which let it keep advancing in the struggle even as Washington has inflicted genocidal violence upon the country.

To win against the enemy we’re fighting, we have to adopt the mentality of those movements that are fully committed to their task of resistance, as they don’t even have the option to take a middle route of compromise. Such false paths come from the bourgeois ideologies that ignore how capitalism is inseparable from imperialism. For an example of when such ideologies have sought to mislead the people, including the class-conscious workers, William Z. Foster explained the deceptive tactics of Communist Party leader Earl Browder:

Browder’s line is a rejection of the Leninist theory of imperialism as the final stage of capitalism. Comrade Browder, in his books and speeches, paints a utopian picture of a world capitalist system, not moribund, but vigorous and progressive, especially in its American section—a world capitalist system about to enter into a period of unprecedented expansion. It is a denial of the general crisis of the capitalist system. Browder believes that under the leadership of his “enlightened” American monopolists, the imperialist ruling classes in this and other capitalist countries will peacefully and spontaneously compose their differences with each other, with the U.S.S.R., with the liberated countries of Europe, and with the colonial and semi-colonial countries, without mass struggle. This is the bourgeois liberal notion that the epoch of imperialism is past. It conflicts fundamentally with the Leninist theory of imperialism as the last stage of a decadent capitalist system.

By studying how communists have fought against the forces in their own parties that have tried to sell class reconciliation, we can gain the insights needed to solidify a real anti-imperialist position. Obviously we shouldn’t have to wait until conditions get sufficiently bad before we can struggle against bourgeois reformist ideology, and somebody is capable of discarding this ideology even if they’re bourgeois themselves; unless you’re dealing with a society like Israel’s settlers, your community and its social movements can absolutely be rallied behind the revolutionary cause. This can be done by exposing how the reformists are truly aligned with capital, and work to advance capital’s biggest projects of global violence.

The next reformist scam will be one where faux-socialists like AOC promise that the working class can prevail by electing a “progressive” president. This scam is in a way even more social chauvinist than Trump 2.0, because AOC has been critiquing Trump for not waging imperialist war hard enough; her arguments have been that Trump is enabling “authoritarianism” around the globe, and that Trump should have destroyed Venezuela’s revolutionary government. This is social fascism unmasked, and it’s exceptionally dangerous because it advocates for imperial aggression under a “socialist” brand. We can figure out how to fight against it, though, by looking at the particular way AOC’s politics take class out of the political struggle.

Social democracy is by definition a class collaborationist ideology, based within the petty-bourgeois illusions about how the workers and the capitalists can reach peace. How have this ideology’s propagators tried to uphold these illusions, though, when confronted with the paradigm-shattering horrors of Gaza? The holocaust against the Palestinians proves that U.S. imperialism is limitlessly violent, and not interested in compromise; so to maintain their pro-capitalist position while posturing as pro-Palestine, the social fascists have portrayed their imperialist welfare state model as being compatible with a free Palestine. Which depends on the notion that Zionism's “progressive” wing, represented by pro-socdem PACs like J Street, genuinely desires equality.

When these faux Palestine allies employ this deceptive tactic, they utilize the parts of the Palestinian diaspora which share such a “soft” Zionist mindset. The J Street wing of Zionism is aligned with the Palestinian Authority, the Zionist puppet regime that denounces Hamas for not taking the “peaceful” path. The PA, with its bourgeois version of Palestinian politics, is what provides legitimacy to the social fascists who oppose the resistance from a “pro-Palestine” angle. And the resistance has had to reckon with this class contradiction inside Palestinian society; concluded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine at its 1969 Congress:

It is the workers and peasants who today fill the miserable camps in which most Palestinians live. When we refer to the camps, we in reality refer to a class situation representing the workers, peasants and the destitute sections of the petit bourgeoisie of the Palestinian people. Here lie the forces of revolution... the forces of change. Here we find real preparation for long years of fighting. Here are the particular daily living conditions which drive people on to fight and die because the difference between death and life under such conditions is not much. It is by starting from this objectivity that we are able to define the distinguishing mark between our people’s unsuccessful struggle during the past fifty years and this new stage of our struggle, to draw a line of demarcation between clarity and vagueness, and to determine the great difference between a revolutionary march ending in victory and a hesitant, unsteady march ending in failure. When we have addressed ourselves to the workers and peasants – the inhabitants of camps, villages and poor urban districts-and armed them with political awareness, organisation and fighting means, we shall have created the firm material foundation for a historical liberation revolution. It is the rise of such a solid revolutionary backbone that will enable us to conclude class alliances to benefit the revolution without exposing it to vacillation, deviation or defeat.

It is such vagueness, vagueness about the question of class, that’s holding back so many fronts in the global anti-imperialist struggle. You cannot prevent or defend against the wars of capital while ignoring the class forces at the heart of every aspect in this conflict. The Palestinian liberation movement needed to reckon with class in order to build a fighting force which knows where its class allies are; this is one of the critical lessons we must take from the Global South’s struggles. It’s how we can defeat the bourgeois reformists within the antiwar movement and the socialist movement, reorienting our practice to where it can effectively fight global finance capital. Then we will be able to act in tandem with the forces that are most successfully resisting Washington’s murder campaign.

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The tech nerds shoved Gen Z to the margins. Now they’re trying to prevent an uprising from the left-behinds.

This message is intended for a particular demographic, that being the ones within Gen Z who’ve been “left behind” in life by our productive mode. It’s of course also directed towards anyone else with an interest in overthrowing capital, but Gen Z’s particular conditions are not focused on enough within Marxist discourse, so it’s necessary to ensure that we as Marxists connect with Gen Z. The masses only have a reason to listen to us if we speak and act in a way that advances their needs, and the needs of the “left-behinds” are unique within history. No past group has been so substantially cut off from the life that lets somebody start a family, and the effect this has is to create an entire generation without such a familial connection to the future. 

The aspect of this crisis I’ll focus on here is how our society’s rulers are reacting to the rise of the left-behinds. How our military-intelligence establishment views these individuals as a strategic threat, and are taking preemptive measures to crush an uprising from people with nothing to lose. Appropriately, the ones tasked with this counterinsurgency project are the same “tech nerds” who facilitated the destruction of Gen Z’s future. It was the techies who could become the new central figures within monopoly finance capital, and progressively reshape our society following the 2008 and 2020 collapses.

Because they’ve been able to define the direction our civilization would take amid the last generation’s technological advancements, we now have a cyberpunk dystopia where a massive proportion of the the people are treated as excess. Yet from this “excess” comes the key to the system’s downfall. A large proportion of “excess” individuals is historically a guarantor of destabilization. And if we organize the left-behinds alongside their class allies, what comes from this will be proletarian victory—the outcome that finance capital has always been trying to prevent above all else.

It’s this “wild card” nature of an alienated population that provides critical context for why our government is building another mass surveillance system, on top of the one it already has. The Zionist-tied, unprecedentedly advanced Palantir spying infrastructure is a defense measure against the backlash that’s going to come from having forced so many individuals out of the “normal” lifestyle. When we notice this mobilization that our class enemies are carrying out in response to the very existence of today’s “excess” underclass, we gain direction on where the “excess” individuals can go to attain agency. On what these technocratic financial monopolists fear the masses may do, and how to correct the great power balance that’s arisen.

A power imbalance has always been there, ever since class society came into being. The rise of the “excess” individuals, as they exist in today’s post-industrial core capitalist countries, is only an outgrowth of this ancient inequality. Part of why Marxists need to reach the left-behinds is because without being exposed to a class analysis, they’ll be vulnerable to the Israeli-backed right-wing online psyops, which blame their suffering on everything besides class. Aside from our task of defeating the far right in debate, though, what we must account for regarding the left-behinds is that many of them have been separated from politics entirely. When somebody has been existing for a long time without motion in their lives, this is going to impact their mental health; which is why Gen Z’s arrested development has had a psychologically crippling effect on what are now likely millions of individuals.

Keeping these victims of our mental health crisis in such a depressed state is the first resort for the anti-Gen Z counterinsurgency. This is why our government’s psychological warfare agents cultivate mass prescription drug addiction, as well as mass pornography addiction: their ideal outcome for the “excess” is endless sedation and lethargy. Yet it’s evidently necessary to keep an extremely close eye on them, via the new innovations in data collection and political manipulation that Palantir has provided. Our transnational banking dictatorship cannot count on our society remaining in its present Huxleyan state; there is clearly a fear that massive social upheavals are on their way.

These upheavals have been made inevitable because even though much of the masses are inert at this stage, our evolving productive forces have set into motion what will become the greatest disruption in history. With the acceleration of advancement in AI, never before has so much human labor been outmoded, and never before has humanity become capable of so much material or creative achievement. Conversely, never before have we seen such a high proportion of the masses pushed out of the “normal” life paths. These two aspects of today’s reality seem paradoxical, yet when you look at history, it all perfectly fits with established patterns. The industrial revolution opened up utterly unprecedented possibilities for production, yet it let the capitalists force more people than ever into conditions of unlivable exploitation. When the proletariat gained control over these new productive means, though, they used industry to bring about unmatched economic growth and stability, which we continue to see socialism demonstrate within China.

This is the historical perspective that explains everything the left-behinds are experiencing, and shows us the path out of our crisis. A crisis like this has happened before, and it’s happened extremely recently within the scope of human history. Only a couple hundred years after capitalism underwent the industrial revolution’s upheavals, now it’s undergoing the AI revolution, which like the previous social cataclysm is creating a great underclass. The difference is that whereas those within the old underclass were enslaved to an industrial profit machine, the new underclass is progressively being pushed out of a productive role. This process started many decades ago with deindustrialization; AI is only speeding up the degrowth. 

When we take control of AI, though, AI will become the force that brings the greatest growth civilization has ever seen, to a degree incomparable with everything that came before it. It will bring humanity wealth that we can’t imagine, while giving us all the free time to limitlessly engage in science, art, and the other high pursuits. Today’s reality seems inconceivably far removed from this reality that’s coming. Our society is saturated in porn, drugs, and other degenerate psyops. Yet at every step within the disruption we’re experiencing, the path to that collective greatness becomes clearer. Moreover, we don’t need to wait until any future stage to begin accessing the tools that history has already given us. Right now, we can use the new technologies to advance revolutionary progress, and can apply all of history’s lessons to fight our class enemies. This is the mission that I invite the left-behinds into: utilize the knowledge and mechanisms we’ve been provided with to carry forward the class war, thereby freeing humanity from the financial parasites who are holding it back.

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