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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Can someone ELI5 why right-wingers are the target of so-much grifting?
I have no doubt porky actually is racist and thinks white people have some divine right to rule the world. However, so much shitty health advice seems to target fascists these days. Anti-vaxxing, carnivore diets, raw milk are the hot new trends and these spaces are predominately right-wing. Yet at the end of the day, it will only hurt right-wingers and the white supremacist cause as this is obviously silly advice leftists will never follow. Furthermore, red areas are also vulnerable areas for sickness: we live in car dependent food deserts that discourage casual movement, gyms are few and far between so they are almost always packed, and we also live in what I call "culture deserts", but that's a rant for another day. I know all too well that white supremacists actually end up hurting white people more than "helping", but at this point they have to know they're knowingly telling settlers to hurt themselves.
My main question is, why do either right-wingers keep hurting their own people, or capitalists push broscience and other garbage on bourgeoisie loyalists in the proletariat?
People who have a decent amount of money and a low amount of introspection about their position in society but are nonetheless anxious about that position tend to be both right wing and very scammable
There's a book called Dying of Whiteness that's sort of about this phenomenon. I think ultimately right wingers think that those who are harmed or die from their policies are "weak" and shouldn't be allowed in society in the first place.
Damn I need to read that book because I think so many things would click. Literally a real life version of the Saiyan’s Pride a la Vegeta
Would be nice to collect a reading list of theory adjacent books made by libs, Thomas Frank and Adam Conover were the first people on my pipeline.
Cos they have false consciousness and no critical thinking so they’re extremely vulnerable to grifters