Shays' Rebellion

[Clarksist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion

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It is very interesting that, in a pre-proletarian US (under the Articles of Confederation) the peasants revolted against the already mounting problem with liberalism. Their revolution is what I can only describe as a pre-proletarian anti-bourgeois revolution. Meaning: there was no proletarian in the Marxist sense, and yet the peasants did fight against the bourgeois interest. It is somewhat astounding that this isn't a much bigger issue on the left.

Thought I'd bring it up.

[Mariam]

Their revolution is what I can only describe as a pre-proletarian anti-bourgeois revolution. Meaning: there was no proletarian in the Marxist sense, and yet the peasants did fight against the bourgeois interest.

Quite true.. i've studed Shay's rebellion in an American history course and fortunate enough my prof. is a Marxist so we had to look at it from that point of view it was amazing to see that this rebellion in its proletarian sense was way ahead of its time, and so it started anothe discusion on how close Marxism is to the "true" human nature.

[Janus]

I wouldn't say that it was really an anti-bourgeois revolt as much as it was an anti-state revolt. Shay's Rebellion was almost exactly mirrored by the Whiskey Rebellion just a few years later. It was quite typical for farmers and other rural folk to take up arms against those whom they saw as oppressive and corrupt whose interests were directly opposed to them. This kind of tradition stretched back to the Regulator Movement and beyond to Bacon's Rebellion.