peasants rise up Anonymous 23-08-25 10:07:27 No. 24892
I want to learn more about the peasant class (and landless laborers?) during the classical and medieval period. I'm especially interested in moments of rebellion, be it successful or not and atypical moments. Like I'm curious about groups that lived somewhat autonomously without being beholden to a king or emperor.(if those even existed) Recommend me some books, audio, YouTube series,.. whatever format is good tbh, doesn't have to be very specific as I want to understand the general picture.
Glownonymous 23-08-25 14:15:22 No. 24894
Look no further than Marx and Engels!
>The German people are by no means lacking in revolutionary tradition. There were times when Germany produced characters that could match the best men in the revolutions of other countries; when the German people manifested an endurance and energy which, in a centralised nation, would have brought the most magnificent results; when the German peasants and plebeians were pregnant with ideas and plans which often made their descendants shudder. >In contrast to present-day enfeeblement which appears everywhere after two years of struggle (since 1848) it is timely to present once more to the German people those awkward but powerful and tenacious figures of the great peasant war. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/