The Epstein files didn’t start a revolution, but they did reveal that the conflicts within our ruling class could tear the U.S. empire apart, like Israel is tearing itself apart. This is because the files were released by the “globalist” wing within the U.S. power structure, with the aim of destroying the wing that’s centered in domestic American interests. Epstein represented the tendency within U.S. capital that exists primarily to assist the American big bourgeoisie in particular, rather than global capital as a whole.
This divergence in material interests between the local and the global is the central dividing line for the U.S. ruling class. And the ever-intensifying conflict between these two forces parallels the conflict between Zionism’s opposing factions, in that this dispute could lead to the Washington banker regime’s downfall; which would make Israel’s collapse represent a prelude to what will happen in the USA.
In fact, it’s a certainty that the fight between globalist and localized capital will be a critical part of what destroys the U.S. empire, because these clashings are the empire’s most serious internal threat at this stage. Trump 2.0 has been going very well for our ruling class, and the empire has been going on the offensive in unprecedented ways; there’s still yet to emerge a substantial working-class organizational presence in the USA, and those in power have been growing more emboldened as time has gone on. Our leaders no longer feel a need to hide their war crimes, and scandals are no longer things to be feared but rather new markers for what’s acceptable.
This is why the Epstein files haven’t endangered any of the guilty: they’ve served as a means for further normalizing violence against children. Which would mean that the files have merely strengthened the system; and yet behind it all, a deeper unraveling has been playing out. A dispute at the highest levels of power that’s threatening to make the United States no longer viable in its present form, to split our enemies, and to create an unprecedented opening in the class war.
When the Democrats and the globalist-aligned Republicans publicized the files, what they were doing was sending a warning shot for civil war. They were making it clear that if the Trump wing tries to obstruct the next designs of international finance capital, then the globalist-aligned wing of our deep state will carry out more operations like the July 2024 Trump assassination attempt. They’ll also orchestrate new levels of unrest within our cities, activating their fed-managed “antifa” forces so that they can divide-and-conquer America.
This does not mean we should side with the Trump wing in the civil war, any more than we should side with either of the rival Zionist factions. It means we must build a working-class force that can outmaneuver both of our warring foes, going into the parts of the masses that will be radicalized by the growing chaos.
By “radicalized,” I mean alienated from both of the ruling capitalist parties, to the effect that we can bring them out of falling back into the duopoly. Right now, more and more of the MAGA base are gaining in revolutionary consciousness, because Trump 2.0 has been fully revealed as a source of false hope. Now the “progressive” Democrats are trying to pick up these disillusioned conservatives and independents, using economic populist rhetoric that may indeed gain them support from these parts of the masses.
This represents a danger to the revolutionary cause, because if communists don’t reach these disillusioned Americans before the social democrats do, they’ll be brought into a pro-imperialist politics. Such is the plan that the globalist wing has to fortify the imperial system: bribe Americans with social benefits so that they’ll get behind Washington’s effort to ramp up its wars.
There are many obstacles to this plan’s realization, though, and we must take advantage of these problems our enemies are facing. Right now, the biggest obstacle is that the domestic wing will do all it can to stop the globalist wing from implementing these social reforms. Peter Thiel and those who share his philosophy want accelerationism, where capitalism’s contradictions become heightened as fast as possible; there’s no way to reconcile this goal with expanded social benefits. Therefore Thiel, and the parts of the deep state that align with him, are going to wage an offensive of their own.
One weapon they’ll likely use in this campaign is cyber warfare; it’s become clear that quantum computing is on its way to overcoming present digital security tech, and Palantir’s heads will try to take advantage of this in order to strike back against their rivals. When these advancements start bringing unprecedented cyber-attacks, expect the battles between our enemies to play a central role in these disruptions.
The other obstacle towards fortifying the imperial structure comes from the American people, who’ve already been greatly radicalized and will continue becoming more radicalized as conditions grow worse. Even if the globalist wing succeeds in enacting these social reforms, our living standards are going to get worse before they get better; Washington’s determination to keep aggressing against Iran and its allies ensures that the oil crisis will be long-term. The response from the people will be to keep looking for answers, and for ways to fight back against our banker regime.
This is why communists must build an anti-Epstein popular coalition: it’s how we can prevent the mass reaction towards Epstein from becoming neutralized, and translate awareness of Epstein into renewed working-class organizational strength.
As our rulers try to fight off both the world’s anti-imperialist forces, and each other, they’ll work to condition the people into a traumatized stupor. They’ll use mass shootings, false flags, and other tools to terrorize Americans, as well as turn us against our neighbors. The goal of all of this is to prevent the American people from following in the example of the Palestinians, and resisting occupation.
We need to understand the banking regime as an occupier, existing to serve the interests of our class enemies. And to defeat this dictatorial force, we must understand exactly where our enemies lie. The dividing line in America’s coming class confrontation will be defined by whether somebody is fighting on behalf of our ruling elites—whether the globalist wing or the domestic wing. This is an optimal way to define the boundary of demarcation, because if we merely say we’re fighting against “the globalists,” we’ll be falling for a psyop by the Trump/Thiel wing.
It is useful to employ the phrase “Epstein class” in agitating for the class war, but we must do so while accounting for the context in which Epstein emerged. Finding this context goes deeper than saying “the Epstein class is just the bourgeoisie”; because many lower-level bourgeoisie are capable of joining with the proletariat, as they have in past revolutions like China’s. The true character of the Epstein class is that they’re bourgeois pedophiles, or bourgeois associates of pedophiles; which is a category that encompasses both the Trump/Thiel camp, and the larger Davos/Bilderberger assemblage that often comes into conflict with the domestic U.S. capitalists.
The role of Epstein himself was to predominantly serve and draw wealth from domestic U.S. capital, which made him a figure who the Mossad sought out for furthering its blackmail operations. Epstein also came into the circles of the Rockefellers and the Trilateral Commission, which are of course tied in with domestic U.S. capital and Israel; yet as the system has gotten closer to collapse, these different factions in the power structure have found themselves at odds more and more. The logical conclusion of this is for the Israeli collapse to repeat itself in Washington, with our enemies entering into a bitter struggle between each other like is happening between the Zionist factions. The question is whether the American people will take control amid the chaos, and end our imperial system.
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