Has there ever been a successful peasant revolt in history?
Does Maoism count?
>>456687
30 years war?
French Revolution?
>>456687
American Revolution
>>456687
Independance of the Swiss cantons from Austria
>>456704
Are you joking?
>>456687
English Civil War
French revolution went pretty well
Unfortunately yes.
Only now we're seeing the tremendous effects that such rebellion took to us.
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>>456687
Peasant revolts have always been plagued by the same flaws: that is, lack of discipline and lack of a common large goal besides "man fuck that fucking lord".
The only thing that kinda counts as a peasant revolt which was successful is probably Khmelnitsky's Uprising, but then again, Ukrainian peasants at the time were quite a hardcore bunch, living on frontier and all; and there was an experienced core of cossacks to rally around.
Hussites
Haiti?
libyan revolution and syrian civil war
>>456687
The Remença
>>456856
hussites were not a peasant revolt, but a popular one across all strata of society - heck the prime movers of the movement in the latter stages of the conflict were two nobility camps
>>456687
A lot of Chinese Imperial Dynasties were established by Peasant Revolts. The Ming and the Han being the most famous.
The revolt against the Yuan Mongols was particularly funnily started as the rebels hid messages in cakes for the new year. The messages pretty much said "at new year, we riot."
However a large part of the success of Chinese Peasant Revolts owed to 4 things
1) Popular recognition of a dynasty's loss of Mandate of Heaven
2) The fact that these arent LE PITCHFORK AND TORCHES rebellions as Chinese civilians did own real weapons for home defense.
3) The fact that as the peasant rebellion ratchets up, it becomes militarized
4) Rebellion is joined by rebellious angry army units.
>>456708
Why would he be?
>>456881
Not him but it was actually kind of both. You could say it was religious fervor combined with some sort of proto-nationalism.
>>456710
> Parliament led by the EARL of Essex and LORD Fairfax
> peasants
>>456687
French Revolution
/thread
>>456914
That was the burgozgazzgy, not peasantry.
>>456914
>Robespierre
>Danton
>Any Revolutionary
>Peasant
>>456708
Why? It's a schoolbook example of a peasant revolt
> Oooga booga where da representations and considerations for our socio-economical status and problems as a colony at
>>456687
Han dynasty = peasant revolt
Ming dynasty = peasant revolt
Shun dynasty = peasant revolt
PRC dynasty = peasant revolt
>>456941
>PRC dynasty = peasant revolt
Now this is actually a good example.
>>456715
Sans Culottes
>>456938
>peasants
>can into concepts such as parliamentary representation and international trade
>>456960
pls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKIWjnEPNY
>>456687
>Has there ever been a successful peasant revolt in history?
Plenty, if you define success as the king/lord conceding to the peasants demands. In medieval Europe, at least, I don't know much about the rest of the world. I think people underestimate just how often peasants would riot or rebel if they didn't like what their lord is doing. The two basic gripes of the peasant were 'taxes are too high' and 'merchants are driving up prices'. Which would usually manifest as a failure to pay taxes and the blocking of roads and smashing of carts. It usually started off as more what we would call civil disobedience, and only escalated into a full scale war if the local lord didn't make some concessions, which they usually did, so there wasn't often a need for a full scale revolt.
So if the issue was purely a local matter it would usually get resolved before open warfare. And if the problem was larger than that then it would usually affect all levels society, meaning that any revolt that started with peasants would usually find itself with a couple of discontent nobles at its head before long. So you didn't get many purely peasant revolts in the sense of a concerted effort to overthrow the established order.
>what is levolution?
What surprises me most when surveying the great destinies of man is always seeing before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school see or want to see today: selection in favour of the stronger, in favour of those who have come off better, the progress of the species. The very opposite is quite palpably the case: the elimination of the strokes of luck,
the uselessness of the better-constituted types, the inevitable domination achieved by the average, even below-average types. Assuming we aren't given any reason why man should be the exception among creatures, I incline to the prejudice that the school of Darwin has everywhere deceived itself. That will to power, in which I recognise the ultimate grounds and character of all change, supplies the means of understanding why selection
in favour of the exceptions and strokes of luck is precisely what doesn't happen: the strongest and happiest men are weak when the organised herd instincts, the timidity of the weak, of the majority, are ranged against them. My overall view of the world of values shows that in the highest values hanging above mankind today, it is not the strokes of luck, the selection types who have the upper hand, but rather the types of decadence - perhaps there's nothing more interesting in the world than this unwelcome spectacle... Strange as it sounds: one has always to arm the strong against the weak; the fortunate against the failures; the healthy against those decaying and
with a hereditary taint. If one wants to formulate reality as morality, then this morality runs as follows: the average are worth more than the exceptions, the products of decadence more than the average, the will to nothingness has the upper hand over the will to life - and the overall goal is now, put in Christian, Buddhist, Schopenhauerian terms: better not to be than to be.
>>456877
>One person in the thread mentions the only one that can really be called a peasant revolt
>Nobody notices
Peasants a shit
>>456701
>French Revolution?
>peasant revolt
lamo
>>456687
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt
Whilst unsuccessful Duke Charles did eventually seize the throne of Sweden.
>>456715
the french revolution was initially led by the middle class and later joined by the lower ones but it wasn't a "peasant revolution" for sure.
and i'm pretty sure no peasant revolution was ever successfuly done, for two reason:
if it's truly a peasant rebellion it will be a fight between numbers vs wealth and in the end wealth always wins since you can pay to others to fight for you so it's pretty much infinite manpower
if it's actually successful it was probably instigated and puppet from major powers or people from the shadows
so yeah, i'm not very optimistic when we're talking about spontaneous lower class freedom cries - people will accept anything if they don't have anyone from "above" to lead them - just look at china
The February Revolution was a genuine popular revolution, with spontaneous uprisings all over the country against the existing government - it was not planned by a particular rebel group or fuelled by a particular ideology.
On 10 March, with bread riots out of control, the tsarina wrote to the tsar blaming hooligans for the trouble. Her letter shows how out of touch the government was with reality
The huge casualties in the war - 9 million dead or wounded by 1917 - lost the tsar the support of the soldiers, so they turned against him when they were asked to put down the riots.Also the tsarina was German. Most Russians believed that she was helping the Germans to win by ruining Russia from within.
>>457176
>one person samefagging
Haiti.
also known as the one and only successful slave rebellion in the 5000+ year recorded history of slavery.
too bad they did nothing to build upon that only success.
Occupy Wall Street
>>456687
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dithmarschen
>In the 15th century the Ditmarsians confederated in a peasants' republic. Several times neighbouring princely rulers, accompanied by their knights and mercenaries tried to subdue the independent ministate to feudalism, however, without success. In 1319 Gerhard III was repelled in the Battle of Wöhrden. After Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg had raided Dithmarschen, the Ditmarsians blamed his son-in-law, Albert II, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, of complicity, who then used this as a pretext for his own unsuccessful conquest attempt in 1403, dying during the campaign from inflicted injuries. In 1468 Dithmarschen allied with Lübeck to protect their common interest as to commerce and containing the spreading feudalism in the region.[2] Ditmarsians had established trade with Livonia and neighbouring Baltic destinations since the 15th century, based on the Hanseatic obligations and privileges since the pact with Lübeck.[2] Both parties renewed their alliance several times and it thus lasted until Dithmarschen's final defeat and Dano-Holsatian annexation in 1559.[2]
>>456890
don't forget the huge peasant revolt that toppled the Ming and had a part in allowing the Manchus seizing the throne in the name of stability against the peasant army
>>456877
This this and this
/thread, mods and sage
>>457438
Now literally a piece of africa in america
>>456704
But the American Revolution was almost single handedly masterminded and created by a small oligarchy within the Colonies. The average British colonist didn't give two fucks about independence until the war itself when a nascent nationalism began to be formed.
>>456880
This, though they achieved victory in the wider context of the catalan civil war, so the peasants were not alone.
>>457183
>successful
>>456705
We had a lot of highly trained ex-mercenaries as well, that's hardly a pure peasant revolt.
>>456879
Both of those were started and funded by people who were paid off by the US to incite violence and revolution
>>457570
At one time or another, every single one of them swung a pitch fork and was covered in cow shit. So it was a rural rebellion against an aristocracy. I'd say it fits the bill.
>>456687
China, China, China, and... uhhh China.
Pretty much Chinese history is a series of peasant revolts.
>>456941
So that's why PRC doesn't let citizens have guns
>>456879
>implying the Syrian Civil war was a success
>implying it ever will be
>>457444
>successful
>>456687
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_Ivaylo
This is my favorite. Bulgarian guy starts a peasant uprising and successfully gets crowned emperor. His victory was short-lived, but it was still a victory.
