Rage against the super-rich is perfectly understandable, but useless. Unlike 1917 when an armed mob could and did overthrow an entrenched monarchy or 1949 when Mao mobilized a peasant army to take out a warlord backed by western powers (both events in the chaotic aftermath of a bloody world war), such "storm the castle on the hill" approaches can no longer possibly work today, simply because the super rich have all the heavy weapons, all the mass media influence, and all the money at their disposal. In such a case, popular insurrections would only lead to chaos, misery, and warring gangs in an endless, catastrophic war of attrition--a failed state, like Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, or Syria (with many more to come...) In each of the preceding cases--Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and even Nicaragua--popular uprisings led only to brutal "strongman" dictators who saw any opposition to their policies as treason, worthy of detention and/or execution.

So what's the alternative? Satyagraha. Gandhi's democratic revolution in India was far from perfect, of course, and has lately led to a revived fascism (Modi), but the principles of nonviolent noncooperation with evil--as practiced also by MLK, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, and others--are still our only hope, for in Satyagraha theory, there is no such thing as defeat--only temporary setbacks. Truth, as Gandhi knew, is indestructible. So I advise you, and all who are sick of the oppression by big money, to practice the three guiding principles of Satyagraha: Ahimsa (nonviolence), Satya (speaking truth to power) and Swaraj (Self-Reliance): That is, growing gardens, growing community, and growing awareness. Those who give in to hatred become their own enemies.