Eat the Rich

Eat the Rich is an abbreviation of a saying attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.^[1] In contemporary culture it may refer to:

"Eat the Rich", a 1983 song by Krokus from Headhunter
Eat the Rich (film), a 1987 film directed by Peter Richardson
"Eat the Rich" (Motörhead song), a 1987 song composed for the film
"Eat the Rich" (Aerosmith song), a 1993 song
Eat the Rich (book), a 1998 book by P. J. O'Rourke
Eat the Rich, a 2014 album by State of Mind (band)
The Eat the Rich Gang, a political group involved in Fifth Estate, a radical journal produced in Detroit

References

↑ The history of the French revolution by M. A. Thiers. Translated, with notes and illustrations from the most authentic sources, by Frederick Shoberl, 1850. Volume 1, page 359.

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[1] The history of the French revolution by M. A. Thiers. Translated, with notes and illustrations from the most authentic sources, by Frederick Shoberl, 1850. Volume 1, page 359.