People may revolt whenever they judge oppression grave enough to warrant it.

Evidence

And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. — , Second-Treatise-of-Government-1645716289, 3337

Categorization

• XREF: Locke places the trigger for revolution in the people’s own subjective judgment—compare to later arguments about who authorizes resistance. — connects to: Violent revolt infects the oppressed with the oppressor’s own evil — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 98; People accept necessary sacrifice but revolt against needless or neglectful losses — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 654; Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves. (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Violent revolt infects the oppressed with the oppressor’s own evil #responds-to (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 98
• People accept necessary sacrifice but revolt against needless or neglectful losses #qualifies (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 654
• Pity toward the oppressed naturally becomes outrage at their oppressors #corroborates (0.95) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 518
• Legal-but-unacceptable conversion pressure can trigger rebellion by delegitimizing a regime #exemplifies (0.95)
• Oppressed people will rebel regardless of rulers’ divine claims #corroborates (0.95) — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 281
• The spectacle’s crowd could invert terror into revolt against the punitive power #corroborates (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 115
• Enslaved people revolted rather than wait for masters’ opinions to change. #corroborates (0.95) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 372
• Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves. #complicates (0.85)
• Oppressors disguise human-made conditions as natural facts to block revolt #complicates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 86
• Honour-based conscience burdens can push loyal generals into doomed revolt. #expands (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1346
• People rationalize oppressive arrangements that harm them rather than protect their own interests #complicates (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911
• An occupying power can provoke premature revolt to identify and decapitate resistance #complicates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 879
• Sympathy for the oppressed can coexist with damaging representation of them #complicates (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 245
• Revolt in a non-revolutionary period is precarious and self-endangering. #complicates (0.85)
• Ordinary considerate people can commit atrocities under dehumanizing conditions #complicates (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 599