The French peasants got rid of their feudal masters, and it was good riddance, but new masters appeared next day. The name of the thing was changed, but the thing itself remained. The same phenomenon would be observed if there were a wholesale slaughter of millionaires in the United States tomorrow, followed by a grand inauguration of Socialism.
H.L. Mencken, Men versus the Man (1911).
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