Corruption (and hate) add up to $2 trillion, going back to 1999.

Increasing inequality (and exploitation) add up to $50 trillion going back to 1975.

Adjusting the first figure back another 25 years, you would get $5 trillion. Therefore, inequality accounts for 10 times more of a theft from the workers than the problem of corruption. For this reason, a focus on corruption shifts opinion to the right, in defense of the government and social order.

Of course these two problems feed into each other and grow together. Without corruption, a political system to keep organizations that stand for revolutionary opinions out of the media would not function. This breeds inequality. Without inequality, the need for corruption would collapse, and with it much of the source of funds for criminal organizations like those of Jeffrey Epstein or Steve Bannon.

The revolution does not lose its inevitability through this process, but instead it gives it new forms. The corruption of the elite will increase the incarceration rate of public figures and their close associates. This will cast a shadow of suspicion on the entire oligarchy and their public servants.

The corruption, which serves to mask the inequality and divide the people from any movement which offers political solutions for this problem, will force such organizations into hiding, or more accurately, invisibility as described in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.  Out of this invisibility will arise an invisible force, which like the invisible hand described by Adam Smith, appears again in theory as all-powerful and ever-present.  Such is the hidden force of the revolution.

Inequality, the great theft which occurs through the extraction of surplus value and exists as a left over from previous social orders based on feudal or slave relations, cannot end without a conscious revolutionary movement of the majority of the working class.  The invisibility of revolutionary organizations seems to suppress this consciousness.  Yet the inequality will break through this wall and gain in relevance through interactions with the real world.  The greater the degree of inequality, the greater the shock produced when viewing the contrast between the public picture provided by the mass media and the observation which enters the real culture through the action of the eyes and what lies behind them.

This shock, raw electricity, will enter the circuits of revolutionary awakening, forcing workers and intellectuals into concrete action.  The massive amount of literature produced by the revolution will then prove vital to turn desperate, isolated acts into an unstoppable united action for permanent social progress.