We live in perpetual class occupation precisely because the owner class has no problem assaulting the lower classes, while the lower classes argue about how unseemly it would be to fight back

The path forward not involving the peasants actually fighting back for me once is just more of the same, the owner class leveraging their capital/power/governmental capture to get more from themselves by finding new and interesting ways to exploit you.

No, there is no way forward with any hope that doesn’t involve class war. Fortunately for the owners, they’re divisive propaganda is working as intended. We’re more interested in fighting one another over stupid wedge issues largely exacerbated by economic inequity than our common enemies at the top. Until we stop looking for fellow peasants to blame for our problems and start looking upward to the root cause, there is no hope.