Those leftists who champion Sade might do well to remember that prerevolutionary France was filled with starving people. The feudal system was both c… - Andrea Dworkin

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Those leftists who champion Sade might do well to remember that prerevolutionary France was filled with starving people. The feudal system was both cruel and crude. The rights of the aristocracy to the labor and bodies of the poor were unchallenged and not challengeable. The tyranny of class was absolute. The poor sold what they could, including themselves, to survive. Sade learned and upheld the ethic of his class.