“But you didn’t get bread on the table by voting for splendid fellows who then promptly went off and led the life of Riley and spared no more of a thought for the poor than they did for an old pair of boots. No, one way or another it was time to put a stop to things, whether they did it all nice and friendly by agreeing to new laws between them, or else like savages, torching the place and fighting each other down to the last man. It would happen in their children’s time if not their own, because there would have to be another revolution before the century was through. A worker’s revolution this time, a right bust-up that would sort society out from top to bottom and rebuild it on a just and proper basis.”
Émile Zola, “Germinal”, 1885.
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