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Eat the rich is an abbreviation of a saying attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is used in radical and anti-capitalist circles, gaining wider traction at the beginning of the 21st century in response to increasing income inequality.[1]
According to historian Adolphe Thiers, the President of the Paris Commune, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, gave a speech to the city on 14 October 1793 (during the Reign of Terror), in which he said:
Rousseau était peuple aussi, et il disait: Quand le peuple n'aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche.[2]
Rousseau, who was also one of the people, said: When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich![3]
Rousseau himself had died in 1778.
References
- ^ How “Eat the Rich” Became the Rallying Cry for the Digital Generation
- ^ Volume 4 of Histoire de la Révolution Française by Adolphe Thiers, on Project Gutenberg
- ^ The history of the French revolution. By M. A. Thiers. Translated, with notes and illustrations from the most authentic sources, by Frederick Shoberl., Thiers, Adolphe, 1797-1877., page 359 [1]"
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