Revolt

The revolt is a feeling of indignation and reprobation vis-a-vis a situation.

A revolt is also, in a more precise direction, the active refusal to obey an authority. It thus corresponds to a broad range of behaviors: not respect of the social norms, disobedience, attempts at insurrection, mutinies, rebellions…

Causes of the revolts

The revolts have fundamental causes and immediate causes. The fundamental causes correspond most of the time to a critical situation of inequality badly lived by a social group. The direct cause is the element release leading the group in crisis to an attempt at modification of social reality.

  1. Refusal of a situation of tender: the revolt aims to reduce an social inequality, economic, religious, main road by obtaining new rights. It is done from the point of view reformist.

  2. Refusal to obey to an authority considered to be illegitimate: they are mainly revolts against the State (anti-tax riots, anti-conscriptions, mutinies)
  3. Rétablissement of an old order: these revolts are done within the framework of opposition to reforms, of re-establishment of the “moral economy” by crowd.
  4. Installation of a new government: this type of revolt has a revolutionary objective and seeks to promote new leaders, better capable to represent the group in revolt.

Form revolts

The revolt can be individual or collective, organized or disorganized.

Revolts between individual action and class action suit

The revolt is generally the fruit of a class action suit, gathering a certain number of people to the shared interests, which act in concert towards the same total objective. There exist however led revolts in an individual way: it is the case of sabotage, terrorism, the aggression. However, the personal revolt is seldom conceived like revolts with whole share. The revolt joining together too a small number of individual is conceived like a simple “crime” or “offense”.

A revolt always rejoins a great number of clean individualities, with the always different objectives.

The revolt between spontaneousness and preparation

The revolt is more or less organized. It can be planned in advance or not, it has more or less clear objectives (to destroy an element. It can have leaders (organizing revolt, representatives elected or taking the direction on the heap).

Some famous revolts

  • the Crunching are popular revolts of South-west with XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries,

  • the slings are revolts of the French Noblesse against the king at the 17th century,
  • the Guerre of the flours took place in 1773.
  • the revolutionary days of the French revolution (July 14th, 1789, August 10th…)
  • the Jacquerie S which are revolts of Paysan S French.
  • Wikisource:Revolt: Anarchistic song
  • Revolt of Cipayes
  • Revolt of Cabochiens
  • Revolt of Inaros
  • Revolt of Spartacus
  • Revolt of the luddists
  • Revolt of May 1968
  • Revolt of black Spring

detailed List: Risings, riots and revolts

Theoretical legitimations of the revolt

In the right

  • In France, the Declaration of the Human rights and the Citizen affirms the right of resistance to the oppression which founds in right the revolts against an illegitimate authority.

  • Right to strike

Philosophy and literature

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