Occupy Wall Street
Publisher: Salon
9 Oct 2011
Occupy Wall Street: A historical perspective
I think what s going on is very interesting precisely because this kind of protest has been so absent for the last 25 or 30 years. We are well advanced in what ought to be called the second Gilded Age, resembling the first Gilded Age of the late 19th century when capitalism developed very quickly and powerfully and the extremes between rich and poor became very great.