Traditional peasants rebel when markets erode their way of life without offering replacements.

Evidence

Similarly, Wolf’s account of peasant rebellions (1969), though making more of tactical considerations than Huntington or Johnson, rests on aberration: peasants—not capitalistic “cultivators”—resist the encroachment of market economies; but when traditional peasant life cannot be maintained and alternative arrangements are too ill-developed or restrictive, tensions arise and peasants rebel (Wolf, 1969, pp. xiv–xv). Here, aggression is unleashed by a combination of cultural and economic frustrations. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4296

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the library’s broader arc on rebellion and social order (Things Fall Apart’s destruction of traditional Igbo life by colonial/market forces).