On this day in 1573, the Croatian-Slovene Peasant Revolt began with an attack on the fortress of Cesargrad, near the town of Klanjec. Peasants formed their own government, planning to abolish feudalism and establish self-rule.
Amidst growing incursions by Ottoman forces into the region, local feudal lords ramped up economic demands on the local peasantry. One powerful noble, Franjo (or Ferenc) Tahy was particularly notorious for his cruel and violent treatment of the local populace.
Complaints made by peasants to the central government were ignored, so popular resistance efforts began to develop. The local peasantry refused to pay taxes to Tahy, who responded by sending armed mercenaries to attack them, however they were defeated by armed peasants.
On the night of January 27-28, rebels seized the fortress of Cesargrad, marking the start of the revolt. The peasants formed an alternative government, with serf Matija Gubec elected as leader.
The rebels made long term plans of systemic reform, including replacing feudal lords with peasant officials, abolishing feudal land holdings and provincial borders, canceling obligations to the Roman Catholic Church, opening of highways for trade, and establishing self-rule by the peasants.
News of the uprising quickly spread through the discontented lower classes of the region, who followed suit by fighting back against their oppressors, taking further territory throughout Carniola, Croatia and Styria.
The Croatian Parliament declared the revolutionary peasants traitors. After their initial wave of success, peasant forces suffered a major defeat at Krško on February 5th, which precipitated a further wave of defeats over the coming days.
The rebels made their final stand at Stubičke Toplice on the 9th, where the uprising was crushed for good. Matija Gubec was captured, and Ivan Mogaić, another important revolutionary leader, was killed on the battlefield.
Captives were maimed and tortured by authorities, and Gubec was publicly tortured and executed on the 15th. Although the revolt was unsuccessful, its memory has persisted in the region in the centuries since, with Gubec attaining legendary status in local folklore.
A detachment of Yugoslav volunteers for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War named themselves the "Grupo Matija Gubec". In 1975, a film based on the events entitled "Anno Domini 1573" was released, and historical re-enactments of the Revolt are held in Croatia every year.
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But you also have to remember that Biden continued many Trump-era policies, including deportations and detaining migrants, expanding oil drilling etc.
The usefulness of Trump is in that he is able to make the USA appear threatening and strike fear into others. Ultimately, whichever POTUS is in charge will not affect policy in general, but I believe Capital has rallied behind Trump and not Biden because Trump is able to consolidate attention towards himself (through MAGA) and away from working class consciousness. I don't think this was the case in 2016 (where Trump's victory I think was genuinely a fluke) but it definitely is the case now.
Biden projects too much of America's good side (the "face" if you will) and this was exposed in the Al Aqsa flood (also unplanned for by imperialists). This cognitive dissonance wasn't present in 2020 but it is now which is my impression of Trump's victory.
We should be thinking about this in the reverse order, Trump is only able to perform because of US hegemony. Sanction warfare against latam, tariffs and hawkish behavior towards Canada and Europe do benefit the US (hegemony isn't a team effort).
That's a good point, not sure if there were some policies Biden reversed which might give a better idea on how they differ.
One of the duties of the bourgeoisie government is to protect the bourgeoisie from themselves in their ever increasing exploitation. That's how I see regulations or agencies like the NLRB or EPA. I think Biden was operating under that type of philosophy. He was even able to increase funding of the IRS, which to my understanding would be able to collect more tax dollars from the wealthy. Granted he wasn't trying to abolish or reform capitalism in a meaningful way, but he was trying to preserve it.
Now Trump only sees the government as the tool to do more exploitation and doesn't care for the protection of the bourgeoisie from itself which is why he'll rip up government agencies no problem. Trump just wants to head the country into this libertarian wet dream, and is using fascist aesthetics to achieve it. I think the bourgeoisie rally behind Trump because they see the short term value in deregulating and defunding agencies. They don't care for "protecting themselves from themselves".
The thing I don't get is why would they also be supportive of the deportations and tariffs. In my eyes this hurts them -- robs them of cheap labor and increases the cost on their imports.
The threat of deportation keeps the wages and rights of migrant workers always in crisis and prevents collective organizing among workers themselves. The initial cruelty is to shock these workers into submission.
Tariffs are an opener for the US to obtain trade agreements it wants. We've already seen Colombia buckle under sanctions just a few days. I don't see this changing anytime soon unless a independent trade network outside of the dollar can be established (like in the USSR).
Someone on this site like 4 or 5 years ago said there are a couple big factions in the American bourgeoisie, Provincial vs Cosmopolitan, that neatly align with GOP vs Democrat. Trump is aligned with the Provincial/National smaller bourgeoisie who have some interests in contradiction with the Cosmopolitan/Global bourgeoisie.