Cashing In On Troubles

Every time of adversity creates an opportunity for making money .....

Guillotines Made Someone Money .....

Monsieur Guillotine was falsely claimed to have cashed in on the French Revolution for example. Actually he didn't invent the device, and was actually a death penalty abolitionist who promoted it as a humane execution method ... but that's another story.

Labours New Thought Crime

One of the inevitable results of revolutionary movements, is that once the leadership slays all its external enemies it then starts to devour its own .....

Maximilien de Robespierre Was Eaten By The French Revolution

When stating this fact, its usual to cite the French Revolution, where the eternal blood-letting of madame guillotine moved nicely from class enemies, to external, then internal foes.