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an "Anti-Epsteinian" conception of power to rebuild our world around:
power is something wielded by all people, together (ie democratically) for the human rights and flourishing of all people, in broad daylight: to each according to their need, from each according to their ability.
capital-like social relations are never not subject to this power - anyone insisting on creating such relations finds it impossible within the systems and values of our society.
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womens' autonomy is never subject to the desires of men. children are never property; their human rights are upheld as they grow into adulthood. anyone can always exit a situation where this is not so; that is part of our definition of "human rights".
the eugenicist, racial supremacist notions that animated his and so many others' beliefs in a hierarchical society are rightly dismissed as pseudoscience, flat earth nonsense, and find no purchase in the structures that undergird our society.
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all of this is achievable. there were many Epsteins before Epstein. but there are things we can do every day to ensure that there are never any Epsteins again.
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The Academic Justification for Male Supremacy: https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-academic-justification-for-male-supremacy
The Academic Justification for Male Supremacy

From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein

New Lines Magazine
Mar 29 at 1:14amTusky