The millions of documents that comprise the so-called Epstein Files aren't gossip. Rather, they allow us an unfiltered glimpse into how the ruling classes operate. From Silicon Valley giants like Peter Thiel and companies like Palantir Technologies, to Wall Street titans and political elites spanning the main US parties; from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump, to government figures in France and members of the British royal family. The files reveal a ruling class that operates beyond official morality, beyond the law and beyond controls.
The Jeffrey Epstein case is not an anomaly of modernity, nor can it be considered merely a resurgence of forms of management of domination typical of clan-based social models, which find their expression in the exploitation of vulnerable bodies. Without wishing to trivialize, it must be said that this is and has always been the ruling class. Just think of Suetonius's "Lives of the Caesars," or the customs of the papal Curia during the Renaissance, or the scandals of the French financial aristocracy during the reign of Louis-Philippe.
The complex web of violence and oppression perpetrated by members of the privileged classes, revolving around Epstein, is understandable only within a society where money has become dominant and the division of labor has reached advanced levels.
The resurfacing of ancestral behaviors reminds us that the relationship of domination is based on violence, a violence that in prehistory led the victorious groups to seize and feed on the bodies of the vanquished; it reminds us that only the increase in labor productivity meant that the vanquished were no longer killed but worked for the victors. Capitalism is merely a form of society that masks, under monetary relations, the violent act underlying all social forms based on class division and exploitation. When the social mechanisms that guarantee exploitation no longer function, the master/slave relationship reappears in all its brutality, giving rise to fascism on a political level and to social phenomena such as those revealed by the criminal behavior of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.
The violence narrated in the files is the violence of the capitalist mode of production, extremely concentrated in time and space. The specific depravities are the depravities that the bourgeoisie imposes on the body of society.
The violent domination of bodies, male supremacism, is a model that cuts across classes, shaped by a deep and ancient history of patriarchy and sexism. But the configuration that this desire for domination takes in the Epstein case, as in the many grim stories of sex and power that characterize the ruling classes, has its own specificity.
Jeffrey Epstein sought to create new needs for his associates, to bind them into complicit relationships, to reduce them to a new dependence and push them towards new satisfactions and thus to economic and political subjugation. Just as in bourgeois society, the sphere of alien entities to which people are subjugated grows with the mass of objects, and each new product is a new intensification of mutual deception and mutual dispossession, so Epstein subjugated his associates by offering them dehumanized bodies, reduced to a state of slavery.
The need for money is the true need produced by bourgeois society, the only need it produces. The quantity of money increasingly becomes its sole attribute of power: just as money has reduced every being to its own abstraction, so it is reduced in its own movement to mere quantity. Its true measure is its boundless and immoderate nature. Money transforms fidelity into infidelity, love into hate, hate into love, virtue into vice, vice into virtue, the servant into master, the master into servant, stupidity into intelligence, intelligence into stupidity. In the background of the documents circulated by the United States Department of Justice, beyond the names hidden or revealed according to political expediency, looms the specter of money and finance.
Capitalist production produces man not only as a commodity, man in function of a commodity; it produces him, corresponding to this function, as a dehumanized being. Immorality and monstrosity on the part of workers and capitalists accompany this production.
The alienation of labor, that is, of people's practical activity, manifests itself primarily in two aspects: the worker's relationship to the product of labor, considered as a foreign and oppressive object, and the worker's relationship to his own activity, considered as an alien activity that does not belong to him. This alienated labor alienates the individual from his own body, both external nature and his own humanity. This results in the alienation of the individual from the other. This alienation, this dehumanization, is the common feature of the acts of violence revealed by the documents in the Epstein archive.
These events are also an expression of the psychology of the financial aristocracy. Among this class, contempt for people appears as arrogance, as the squandering of what could sustain a hundred human lives, and partly as the vile illusion that work, and consequently the sustenance of others, are conditioned by the unbridled waste and unregulated, unproductive consumption of the privileged classes. The financial aristocracy considers human fulfillment only as the fulfillment of its own non-existence, its own whims, its own arbitrary and bizarre whims.
We should not be surprised if among Epstein's accomplices we find, in addition to capitalists and financiers, also politicians, rulers, and scions of royal houses.
In societies divided into classes and based on exploitation, there are inevitably winners and losers. Government, which is the prize of struggle and a means of ensuring the victors the results of victory and perpetuating them, will certainly never fall into the hands of the losers, whether the struggle takes place on the terrain of physical or intellectual force, or on the economic level. And those who fought to win-that is, to secure better conditions than others, to gain privileges and dominion-will certainly not use it to defend the rights of the vanquished and impose limits on their own arbitrariness and that of their friends and supporters. The winners will be those who have been the most violent, the most deceitful, the most treacherous, the least committed to respect for others. Even in a democratic system, the "best" are the least scrupulous and possess a psychotic need to dominate others. "Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men," said Lord Acton. It should therefore come as no surprise that the Epstein files contain people who hold or have held the levers of political power.
The events narrated refer to a network of relationships so vast that it cannot be reduced to an aberration, nor to the simple resurfacing of atavistic instincts. They are the synthetic expression of today's society, a society based on political, economic, and religious domination; the product of the struggle between people and the unleashing of the victors' bestial instincts on their prey.
It's time to get rid of all this. It's time to replace a society based on exploitation and predation with a new society based on solidarity.
"Solidarity-that is, the harmony of interests and sentiments, the contribution of each to the good of all and of all to the good of each-is the state in which alone man can express his nature and achieve the greatest possible development and well-being.[...]It is the superior principle
that resolves all current, otherwise insoluble, antagonisms and ensures that the freedom of each individual finds no limit, but rather its complement, indeed the necessary conditions of existence, in the freedom of others." (Errico Malatesta)
Tiziano Antonelli
https://umanitanova.org/i-costumi-dei-padri-caso-epstein-e-dintorni/
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Link: (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #6-26 - The Customs of Fathers. The Epstein Case and Its Surroundings (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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