Marx d 1883. JEV b 1953. Capitalism existed before JEV.
Conflating the ruling class with JEV is not smart.
Whatever his influence and connective powers and even direct power may have been.
Although in some situations it is rhetorically useful to remind people about the pedophilia, etc, and to draw those connections. But constantly doing it is lazy and with over use, will lose effect. Just as for the catholic church, or boy scouts. Sort of a joke.
We don’t refer to “the Regan class” even though virtually every problem on planet earth has some roots in Ronald Regan Regime. Without Regan there is no Epstein.
Class > Individual
capitalism can be a big ship where the bourgeoisie are the only ones allowed a hand at the wheel but when you have a subset of the bourgeoisie using clandestine fuckery to effectively hold a gun towards enough of the rest to have enough influence to affect policy ranging from “paywalls on scientific articles” (thanks Maxwell’s dad) to “using the entire department of Justice to actively and transparently cover up the sitting president’s sexual assault (putting the allegations lightly) and liability as part of this blackmail scheme” and then you try to tell 99% of normal people “but forget about all that and just focus on capitalism” you’re going to get ratio’d by people like jackson hinkel and actual nazis all fucking day
Obviously the answer isn’t to let epstein eat the fucking sins of capital, but fucking come on