With a POD of 1500, what is the earliest possible far-left revolution there can be ? Kudos for those whom can push it back to the 18th century. I know there were early forms of socialism called utopia, but it wasn't really revolutionary-esque. Would an 18th century far-left revolution happen ?
 
Why after 1500 and what's wrong with the Taborite Hussites?

There wer plenty such revolutions in the late middle ages and early modernity.

If you don't like them, you ought to define the revolution as necessarily anti-religious or at least secular, plus led by industrial workers instead of peasants.
 
The biggest problem is that revolutions in that era were tied up with (popular) religion. Look at Cromwell, he did lots of radical things (including executing his king), but was deeply Christian, as were many of his followers. Same thing with things like the German Peasants' War--way too religious, even if I've seen suggestions it could end up like a. Even in the French Revolution, actual socialists were marginalised. That limits the potential of a far-left revolution.

The French Revolution might be able to take an even more radical course than OTL. Possibly another Enlightenment-era revolution. But you need to limit religious influence in previous revolutions to get a true far-left revolution. I've even seen suggestions that the German Peasants' War could end up like a 16th century French Revolution in terms of impact. Cromwell's England obviously could do much more, and there's a lot that could be explored.
 
Why after 1500 and what's wrong with the Taborite Hussites?

There wer plenty such revolutions in the late middle ages and early modernity.

If you don't like them, you ought to define the revolution as necessarily anti-religious or at least secular, plus led by industrial workers instead of peasants.

Working timeline parametres keep it after CE 1500.

And what other possibilities there may be from the revolutions in the late medieval ages and enlightenment era ? Can you provide a list in the revolutions that might go far-left ? Like Cromwell's revolution (if it could be done in a different way) ?
 
The biggest problem is that revolutions in that era were tied up with (popular) religion. Look at Cromwell, he did lots of radical things (including executing his king), but was deeply Christian, as were many of his followers. Same thing with things like the German Peasants' War--way too religious, even if I've seen suggestions it could end up like a. Even in the French Revolution, actual socialists were marginalised. That limits the potential of a far-left revolution.

The French Revolution might be able to take an even more radical course than OTL. Possibly another Enlightenment-era revolution. But you need to limit religious influence in previous revolutions to get a true far-left revolution. I've even seen suggestions that the German Peasants' War could end up like a 16th century French Revolution in terms of impact. Cromwell's England obviously could do much more, and there's a lot that could be explored.
Why is religiosity something that disqualifies a movement from being far left? There is nothing inherently irreligious about the left. Same goes for the right.

So the earliest would probably be the Diggers, or as they called themselves, the True Levellers in Parliamentarian England. Whether they could've gotten popular support might be a stretch
 
Working timeline parametres keep it after CE 1500.

And what other possibilities there may be from the revolutions in the late medieval ages and enlightenment era ? Can you provide a list in the revolutions that might go far-left ? Like Cromwell's revolution (if it could be done in a different way) ?
Here are some peasant revolts of the 16th century:
  • (1500s-1510s) A more successful Bundschuh in South-Western Germany
  • (1514ff.): A more successful or perhaps coordinated (that is the MAIN problem of all these revolts, they`re only local) development of the Poor Conrad (South-Western Germany), the Frisian peasant revolt, György Dozsa`s revolt in Hungary and peasant revolts in Carinthia and Friulia
  • (1520s): A more successful (perhaps involving more support from Protestant theologians) German Peasant War, perhaps by bridging the gaps between revolting peasants and radical anabpatists on one side and more moderate upper middle class supporters of Lutheran / Zwinglian reformation? YOu could have it start as a broad church combining German nationalism, literalist anti-clericalism, and social protest of the peasantry, and then have it gradually radicalise, keeping as many members of the middle class on board as possible?
  • (~1600): successful popular revolt (e.g. more widespread Bolotnikov`s revolt) in Russia during the Times of Trouble
Wikipedia has an (incomplete) list of peasant revolts here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peasant_revolts

Peasant revolts are already far-left in their demands, although the peasants usually understood their demands as a return to "good old laws and customs". It was aimed at curbing or abolishing feudal privileges, restoring common land, rural self-governance and the elimination of aristocratic and patrician rule over the villages etc. They destroyed castles and raised popular militia. Where religious thinkers led them, they demanded a return to apostolic poverty, general equality and far-reaching distributive communism.

After the height of peasant revolts, they don`t completely disappear, but bourgeois-led revolts begin to become more important. Those had already existed in the late Middle Ages, too: craftsmen`s revolts in countless Central European towns against patrician-dominated urban government, for example. (Examples are almost countless.) From the 17th century on, they became more important. Here, there was more education - and since the enemy was no longer a decentralised feudal system but a centralised state / monarchy, they also had greater coherence and wider scope. Since the interests of the urban middle classes were not so very far-left, I suppose you want them to radicalise. The path here, I suppose, is to connect urban bourgeois protest, religious zeal and peasant revolts, against a perceived common enemy (an unpopular monarch, for example).

Long-term success is unlikely in any event because the medieval peasantry was unable to cope with organisation demands, Lutheranism and Calvinism had tamed religious reform movements into something conformist, and the interests of the urban bourgeoisie and the peasantry and day labourers were too divergent. But there are many revolts which you could at least turn into decade-long, bloody, and philosophically highly productive revolutions which would shape consequent history - whether for the progressive good or not (e.g. via reactionary backlashes) is a different question, though.
 
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