L&R's Ch. 4 devotes much attention to the democratic, working-class voices of the English Revolution of the mid-17th century. These are important documents, since very few actual texts produced by working-class or peasant rebels exist before this date.
There are fewer such texts for rebellions outside of England at this time, so we have to study them indirectly, through historical accounts and texts produced by the upper-class opponents of rebellion. That's what we look at today.
Consult our "texts" page -- also linked on our Home Page -- and read the following:
Here's the writing -- first of all, the "thinking" -- assignment.
The documents of the working classes in the English Revolution; the rebellions of the working classes (including slaves, also a part of the working classes) in the Colonies, and the response of the exploiting classes to them, show a lot of "class consciousness" -- awareness of the fundamental and critical nature of "class", whether as a guide to struggle and alliance, or as a strategy of divide-and-rule.
Please write 350 words or a little more about class consciousness in the documents above. Consider the use of a new category -- "race" -- to complicate the issue of class, and the relationship of "race" to class.
Email to your group and to me.