1.2.3-Jesuit-space-pirate

''' Dieser Mensch ist z.B. nur König, weil sich andre Menschen als Untertanen zu ihm verhalten. Sie glauben umgekehrt Untertanen zu sein, weil er König ist. ''' Das Kapital, footnote 21

(“This man, for example, is only a king because other people act as subjects towards him. They believe the reverse, that they are subjects because he is king.”)

This footnote looked like it might be relevant to that other book I’m reading.

Even our two aristocrats seem to have the slightest inkling that nobility is a relative value, here:

—''En France et dans les carrosses du roi, il est marquis comme je suis comte et comme vous êtes chevalier.

—''Ils sont loin les carrosses! s’écria La Vieuville. Nous en sommes au tombereau.

They, of course, don’t follow up on that thought because they’re too busy being indignant at the idea of being led by wig-makers/dreaming about slaughtering revolutionaries.