Organic communal theory supplied the rationale for European peasant rebellions.

Evidence

In the communal variant, both the law of God and nature dictated an original equality among the parts of the village community, cooperative land use, and communal sharing of tools and goods. Moreover, the body of the people had the right to choose its own head by elective right. Consent of the community must validate the actions of the village officials who remained parts of the whole and subordinate to it. The principles of people’s sovereignty, internal self-regulation, and decision making formed the political rationale for the peasant rebellions that challenged the reassertion of authority by landlords when traditional balances between land and peasant were upset. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 355

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Village peasant culture generated an egalitarian communal variant of organic social theory. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 354; Peasant rebellions across western Europe demanded wage labor and free markets — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 166

Broader Connections

• Peasant rebellions across western Europe demanded wage labor and free markets #contradicts (0.90) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 166