Peasant rebellions across western Europe demanded wage labor and free markets

Evidence

As Hay indicates, the most intense of the peasant rebellions occurred in Flanders (1325–28), northern France (the Jacquerie of 1358), and England (1381). But such movements erupted over much of western Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. In France, and especially Normandy (precipitated surely by the final savaging of the peasants by the forces of the Hundred Years War), in Catalonia (1409–13 and later), in Jutland (1411), in Finland (1438), and in Germany (1524), peasants arose, seizing land, executing lords, clergy, and even lawyers, demanding an end to manorial dues, petitioning for the establishment of wage-labor, and insisting on the dissolution of restrictions on free buying and selling. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 166

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Organic communal theory supplied the rationale for European peasant rebellions. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 355; In feudalism neither land nor labour power was a commodity with a market price — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 97; Peasants in postwar Italy reorganized production around subsistence needs rather than profit — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 381