The Betrayal of Capt John Brown

"Had I so interfered on behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great...and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right..." 
- John Brown (to the Virginia Court in Charlestown on Nov 2, 1859)

"Reminiscences of the Civil War by a Confederate Staff Officer"

In Harper's Ferry there was an armory and arsenal belonging to the government. At the time of the raid large quantities of arms, 100,000 stand of rifles, had been made there and were stored in the arsenal for use when needed.

The north easternmost end of the Valley of Virginia was settled by families mainly from Eastern Virginia, attracted by the fertility of the soil. They brought with them the institution of slavery, which, no matter what its faults may have been, gave to the people a phase of social life, an immunity from the drudgery of existence, a leisure for the cultivation of mind and manners. People opposed to slavery were simply ignorant of the subject. They said slavery was brutal, therefore slave-owners were brutal. Bad men are brutal often, and some slave-owners were brutal; but that they were brutal as a class, I deny.

"Let Them Eat Shit."

The Poor are led to believe that their suffering in poverty is the fault of the selfish Rich, who do not share their hoarded wealth. But the Rich didn't give birth to the Poor. They’re poor because their mothers bred them in poverty, after choosing to pursue cosmetics and sex in lieu of employment opportunities.

The mothers then raise their slave victims with violent lies of entitlement, placing the Rich in an extremely awkward position (on the wrong side of hostile demographics). The Poor know they can use force to take from the Rich, and the Rich are used to buying reprieve -- which doesn't always pan out as intended, but you know "mean words"? They're not always as mean as they seem to the butt-hurt victims of their mothers' emotional abuse.

“Let them eat cake.”

Maybe she was saying, "Let them eat cake...to save our necks." It seems a lot more likely. Why would she care about hurting their feelings?