"The Great Peasants’ War in Germany of 1525: " Topic

….a Little Known Story

"What was the German Peasants' War of 1525 but an abortive revolution, even if they did not yet have this word in their vocabulary or actually use it in this sense? What a thing to make a nobleman walk on his feet, while the peasant climbed the mount and rode on the nobleman's high horse! What was it when the notorious peasants could load Margarethe von Helfenstein, the natural daughter of Emperor Maximilian, on a manure wagon in Weinsberg, and pack her and her child off to Heilsbronn? Less harmless was this insult to her noble estate than the fact that despite her pleading for her husband's life, Duke Helfenstein, along with seventeen other noblemen and knights, was still forced to run a gauntlet of peasants before her eyes, witnessing this cruel sport with her two year old son. (By and large the peasants had not been bloodthirsty, but Duke Helfenstein had just carried out a murderous march against the peasants on his way from Stuttgart to Weinsberg.)[2] Abortive as the revolution was, for a small space in time, from 1524 to 1525, and longer in Tyrol, the peasants hunted and fished as equals to the ruling nobility…."
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Amicalement
Armand

Another from Frederick Engels

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Amicalement
Armand

I would take Engels work on this with some considerably grain of salt considering the "historical" work. There is a reason why Marx and Engels are usually named together as the foundation fathers of "Marxism", and Engels certainly uses a very specific perspective.

That, of course, would be known to a Sandinista :-)