How can you face a problem if your problem is your face?

First you need to look into the mirror and really ponder your existence. Then maybe plastic surgery.

answer; /// i believe the correct answer is (reactants);

you did not attach the discourse, but i assume it to be the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men (the original titile in french is: "discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes"), also know as "second discourse". in this discourse, jean-jacques rousseau emphasizes that private property is the basis of all inequalities.

therefore, what enabled the old regime to maintain as long as it did was private property.