Which Faction Would You Support in the German Peasants' War?

The German Peasants' War (1524–1525) was a major uprising in the Holy Roman Empire, primarily driven by socio-economic grievances and a desire for religious reform inspired by the Reformation. The movement saw early communists, reactionary peasants, Lutheran Reformers, burghers, Catholic nobility, and Protestant nobility fight for and fight over influence over the Holy Roman Empire

"It was a system whose foundationallaws were determined by the Germanic peasants’ ideas of self-government, and whose composition depended on the more or less randomly assembled set of the lowest and smallest units, i.e. the landowners of each individual community." -R.W. Darre

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How should the increase of taxes on the peasants be handled?
- The aristocracy must be overthrown and peasant's communities made into communes.
- These laws must be opposed, possibly violently, if the men of Germania ever hope to be free again.
- Though these laws are unjust, the Protestant Reformation will champion the cause of the peasant without bloodshed.
- We support whatever supports a flourishing urban life.
- It is the natural lot of the peasant to serve their lord.
- God ordains whatever order we give to the unruly masses.
What is does an ideal society look like?
- Communal and secular.
- Communal and based on faith in the Lord.
- A society which creates natural order under the Lord.
- A society where a man's consciousness is free to attend whatever Mass he wishes.
- Rich, centralized, and Catholic.
- Rich, centralized, and Protestant.
Where does law come from?
- Rational human thought.
- The Word of God as it springs up to the race.
- Whatever the king decrees, I do not care much.
- The Word of God as disseminated through His representatives on Earth.
- An order which can interpret God's everlasting Word.
Should there be any aristocracy?
- No nobles, certainly no masters, and maybe no gods either.
- Yes, but any aristocracy which does not naturally arise from the race is invalid.
- A well-integrated and learned aristocracy keeps the world ordered and Mass full.
- Yes, and it should be clearly defined and probably hereditary.
What land ought to be reformed?
- All of it. Private land and property is an affront to God and the sensibilities of man.
- Nobody ought to own what they do not control or use: let the peasants use the unused forests and grasslands.
- The only reform I wish to see is clearer demarcuation of ownership.
- Seize lands owned by the Catholic Church, they are no longer needed.
- The king should have greater choice of what happens in his lands.
What should be done with the Bundschuh rebels?
- They are martyrs.
- They were rebels with a cause: let them go if they surrender their arms.
- They were sheep lead astray: kill their leaders and free the peasants.
- Kill them all. They threaten the natural order of things.
Should contracts between landowner and peasant be able to be unilaterally renegotiated by the owner?
- The only contract I accept is my covenant with God and/or humanity.
- No, that is outrageous!
- These peasants should be happy we allow them to plow our fields.
- It is unjust, but I have bigger problems to worry about.
What ought to be done about the corrupt preachers and priests?
- Either throw them out of town or throw them out of windows.
- They ought to be investigated and removed if they have acted ungodly towards their community.
- The Reformation has begun fixing this problem: wait!
- This is not a problem.
- Corruption? In the Church ordained by Christ and built upon the rock, Peter?
Violence has broken out across the HRE! What is to be done?
- Pick up your hoe, your hammer, your scythe, or your spear and fight.
- Demand that in the name of God, the peasants stand down- they are being lead by a false prophet
- Provide tacit support for the nobles, their protection benefits you more than the peasants every could.
- Catholic or Protestant no longer matters: call up the knights and crush the satanic insurgents.
What role should Martin Luther play in the war?
- This is the natural end of Luther's prescriptions. He must come and fight.
- Luther is a reformer, not a Godless and brutish revolutionary like Muntzer. He should be sympathetic, but side with the aristocracy.
- Luther knows where Protestantism goes if he capitulates to the revolutionaries - in the dustbin.
- Luther should be burned no matter what.
The war has ended and the peasants have been crushed. What does this incident in history prove?
- The contradictions of non-Communist society have been evident in the souls of mankind since the world begun. All knees shall bend and all tongues shall confess the gospel of Marx.
- A society is best run hen its leaders spring up from the "race and the soil." As modern society decays, this provides a future for the White and Western races.
- The poor and uneducated do not know when they are given a good thing.
- God's Word wins in the end. Violence is never the answer in the eyes of God.
- Those who rise against God's ordained shall be crushed.

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