Insight for Occupy Around the World

It struck me that the West Indian historian, C L R James’ analysis of history reveals extraordinary insight.  He wrote:

“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.” (C.L. R.James, The Black Jacobins, 89)

This is applicable to what is happening to the two sides in the stand-off at Occupy sites around the world.