Marxism: Lesson of the Peasant War

175 years ago, Friedrich Engels wrote the socio-historical study »Der deutsche Bauernkrieg« (The German Peasant War).

In June 1524, the first farmers rose up in the south of the Black Forest, in the Landgrafschaft Stühlingen. The trigger for their revolt was that the Count's wife wanted the farmers to collect snail houses in order to wrap their yarn on them – which caused great indignation among those affected, because first of all, farmers did not collect snail houses, and secondly, they did not perform the hated fron services during the harvest period. "If hi…

They believed they were fighting for a more just world, but they lost. German peasants revolted against the nobility between 1524 and 1526, sparking a rebellion that preceded and inspired the wave of peasant uprisings that would sweep central Europe 150 years later. They demanded more rights and the abolition of serfdom. But their leader was executed 500 years ago, and the army drowned the uprising in blood. The legacy of the peasant revolt late…