Class society is not a debate club. It is a system of organized violence. The bourgeoisie owns the means of production, the state, the courts, the police, the prisons, the media. That gives it the power to decide whose suffering counts and whose crimes are forgotten. Child abuse by the powerful is not an exception; it is what impunity looks like. The same system that lets a boss extract your labor and throw you away when you’re used up also lets a rich man buy silence, discredit a survivor, or bury a case. The state does not protect children. It protects property and the people who own it.

So when you say you’re middle class, you’re describing a buffer zone. There is no middle class in the class struggle; there are owners and workers, and those who serve the owners. Your comfort is not innocence. It is a wage, a mortgage, a pension, a tax break—material bribes paid out of the surplus extracted from others. When you say you’re a centrist, you are saying you want the system to continue but with nicer manners. Centrism is not the middle; it is the ideology of the ruling class in a crisis. When you say you’re not interested in politics, you are saying you are content to let the ruling class make every decision. That is a political choice. It is a vote for the status quo.

Inaction is not neutral. If you see a child being dragged away and you can stop it but you don’t, you are not a bystander. You are complicit. The same is true politically. The violence is not a single act; it is a structure. It is border cages, school bombings, starvation sanctions, foster care pipelines, prison labor, and the impunity of the rich. To refuse to fight that structure is to accept its protection. To accept its protection is to side with those it protects. The predators at the top do not need your applause. They need your silence, your labor, your taxes, your respect for the law, your belief that there is no alternative. Every non-revolutionary position gives them exactly that.

Anarchists, communists, and socialists may disagree on tactics, strategy, and timing. But they share a minimum: the ruling class must be abolished. Anyone who rejects that minimum—whether they call themselves moderate, independent, apolitical, or simply too busy—is not standing outside the conflict. They are standing on the side of the system that produces and shields the predator elite. The pedophile elite does not survive because it is hidden. It survives because the state, the police, the courts, and the media are built to protect the class it belongs to. To defend that class, even by doing nothing, is to defend them.

Therefore, the only consistent position against the pedophile elite is to be against the class that produces and shields them. That means revolutionary socialism, communism, anarchism—whatever name you use for the abolition of class power. Not reform. Not protest as a lifestyle. Not voting for the lesser evil. The lesser evil is still evil, and it still governs in the interests of the same class. If you are not for the abolition of the system that makes predators untouchable, you are for the system. You are on their side. Not because you cheer them, but because you leave them the state, the police, the courts, the media, and the money. And that is all they need.

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