Wright explained revolutionary elites via jealousy of their rulers

Evidence

Still, in this his most devastating criticism of Communism, Wright was relying on a notion of class struggle:

These men who rise to challenge the rulers are jealous men. They feel that they are just as good as the men who rule; indeed, they suspect that they are better. They see the countless mistakes that are being made by the men who rule and they think that they could do a more honest, a much cleaner job, a more efficient job.

— Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1412

Categorization

• XREF: The jealous-rebels theory parallels Robinson’s broader argument about the petit bourgeois origins of radical ideologies, and echoes elite-theory debates (Pareto/Mosca).