Tiota Sram on Nostr: I largely agree, but some points out divergence: "The Epstein class" is actually ...

I largely agree, but some points out divergence:

"The Epstein class" is actually pretty good rhetoric. They function exactly like a class: have shared interests and defend them; reflexively defend each other out of class solidarity, etc. It's a small and hyperspecialized class, but it is a class, and it's one that large masses of people (taught to believe that all anti-capitalist rhetoric can be ignored out-of-hand) still recognize is a problem. Using "Epstein class" to get people to actually listen to a systemic critique of capitalism is good strategy, even though using "overthrow the Epstein class" as the whole of your message is bad.

Also, capitalism is *not* the whole problem. Patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, and other issues intertwine with it and none of them are fully separable but neither is any of them the single source of all the others.

Reducing the problem to "just capitalism" actually invites some of the same failure modes as reducing it to "just this one group of people," and alienates potential allies who are focused on other facets of the multi-crisis that impact them more directly.