According to Jonah Goldberg the French Revolution was the first socialist revolution and had nothing to do with freedom for all the people. Even Marie Antoinette's famous quote "Let them eat cake" was a misquote. The truth was that while bread was in short supply, cake was the food of the aristocracy and too expensive for the "peasants". Antoinette's plea was to allow them to have access to cake if they could not get bread. It was not a disdain for the "little people" but rather an attempt to feed them. The quote was probably first quoted by the New York Times, much like President Donald Trump's "There is good people on both sides"