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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but wage labor as the dominant form of subsitance and crisis caused by mass unemployment are not as old as france or the US

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Why would the type of economy matter? An analysis of historic violent collapses of nations has shown that revolts happen when the average person is unable to feed their family.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Because a peasant revolt over too high taxes/rent or land dispossession looks very different then an uprising of the urban unemployed. The former almost never worked due to the lack of density and coordination and the latter occasionally worked and can lead to a modern revolution.

Also most premodern states didn't fall because of unrest from below, they mostly fell due to inter-elite conflict and civil wars or external invaders coming and conquering the state. Most states became very good at suppressing any violence from below and it's only really after the invention of gunpowder that the elites start worrying about popular sentiment.

If all the peasants are starving and can't feed there families they aren't going to do well against a well fed well trained professional armored warrior in a field in hand to hand combat. Give that poor sod a gun though and a place in the city to hide and shoot at a soldier then they'll do a lot better regardless of there physical ability.

So a peasant is going to be far less likely to revolt then an urban worker because they know there chances of winning are near 0. Yeah starving to death sucks but it won't be worse then getting crucified after the revolt inevitably fails.