The battle cry, of a philosophy that considers the rich oppressors of the poor. Derogatory concerning the wealthy. It is not standard or widely used--more of a pop culture term.

"Eat the rich/ That's the only thing they're good for" --Aerosmith, Steven Tyler

See class, class war, oppression

Also a low-budget early eighties British film. Features Motörhead's Lemmy as a revolutionary who takes over a high class restaurant and feeds the patrons to each other. One for the "so bad it's good" category. Remember - tastes like chicken.

You can file this under "You couldn't make it up".

Yesterday I spotted P.J. O'Rourke's book "Eat The Rich" in one of the three W H Smith's newsagents in Waterloo railway station. The cover features a typicaly-smug Mr. O'Rourke and the slogan "A Treatise in Economics".

And yet Smith's, in their wisdom, had seen fit to put in in their "Health & Diet" section. They really think it's about eating rich folks.

The book itself is pretty good; although I find his flippant mocking of some nationalities a little dispiriting. The chapters cover the "Good Capitalism" of Wall Street and the "Bad Capitalism" of Albania; then the "Good Socialism" of Sweden and the "Bad Socialism" of Cuba. The book rounds off with sections on the economic reform of Russia, and "How to Make Nothing if You Have Everything" (Tanzania), "How to Make Everything From Nothing" (Hong Kong) and "How to Have the Worst of Both Worlds" (Shanghai). He visits each country and gives his forthright and entertaining opinions on what he finds there. It is an excellent piece of travel writing as well as a basic overview of several economic systems in practice.