Regarding the Epstein Files
To be caught by surprise when the atrocities the ruling class commits against the people is revealed is not the stance of a Communist, but of a base liberal who has not understood the enormously profound truths to be gained by the acknowledgement Marx and Engels made in the Manifesto almost 200 years ago:
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”[1]
The fact that the bourgeois class is winning this struggle in our current period is precisely what allows for such terrible manifestations of abuse towards members of the lower classes by the hands of the moneyed few. It is a good thing that this abuse is now garnering the attention of the masses, but the Communists, those who lead the struggle against the rich owners of capital and labor, are already aware of the depths of depravity existing within the bourgeois class. We are not surprised, but emboldened in our tasks, and we hope to see the masses emboldened as well.
Only the class struggle – the victory of Communism and the working class – is capable of ending the rule of capital that enables the privileged few to prey upon the oppressed masses. It is our sincere hope that the masses’ increasing awareness of the horrors of class rule will also serve to embolden them, and that they will enter into the class struggle on the side of Communism. If the horrors of systemic physical and sexual abuse perpetuated by capitalist owners are not enough of a motivation, we Communists are also educating the masses on any of a number of additional abuses the lower classes endure in the course of capitalist production. Sooner or later, they will get the point, especially as the current crisis in capitalist-imperialism sends more and more members of the masses into the desperate and abused stratum.
[1] Marx, Karl. Engels, Friedrich. Manifesto of the Communist Party. Feb 1848. Marx and Engels Collected Works. Vol 6. Lawrence & Wishart Electric Book. 2010. Pg. 482.