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1500s

Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies

A contemporary account and condemnation of the brutal expansion of the Spanish Empire into the West Indies.
Plantation slavery

Class struggles, climate change, and the origins of modern agriculture

Class conflicts and colonial expansion in the context of the Little Ice Age lead to the emergence of…

The peasants war in Germany 1525-1526 - Ernest Belfort Bax

Belfort Bax's 1899 history of the peasants war in Germany: the largest popular uprising in Europe…

Q - Luther Blissett

Set in the time of tremendous religious and political upheaval caused by the Reformation in Europe, Q begins with Luther nailing his 95 theses on…
Robert Kett, yeoman farmer who sided with the peasantry against enclosures

Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe - Robert Brenner

Robert Brenner's influential essay on the origins of capitalism, arguing that the…

Witch-hunts and the transition to capitalism?

I remember when I first Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch I liked its synthesis of autonomist Marxist emphasis on class struggle and…

Syrian-Lebanese dispute and its implications for the class struggle, 1500-2003 - Melancholic Troglodytes

Melancholic Troglodytes' pamphlet covering the history of the Syrian/Lebanese…

The Peasant War in Germany - Frederick Engels

Frederick Engels on the German Peasants War of 1525, arguing that it's motivating force was primarily class-based rather than religious.

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