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Re:Behind Closed Doors review – entertaining study of London... by chrisseaton on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:02AM (#32189680)
The French literally executed away their class system.
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Re:Behind Closed Doors review – entertaining study of London... by NoboruWataya on Friday July 22, 2022 @07:58AM (#32190993)
Of course they didn't, unless you are using some extremely narrow and historical definition of "class". France still have significant wealth inequality and rent-seeking, so by most modern definitions of "class" they certainly have a class system.
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Re:Behind Closed Doors review – entertaining study of London... by chrisseaton on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:23AM (#32191177)
The UK has a formal class system that's actually encoded in law (peerages, knights, royal family, etc.) France got rid of all that.
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