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In The Dawn of Everything, Graeber & Wengrow write:
May Day came to be chosen as the date for the international workers’ holiday largely because so many British peasant revolts had historically begun on that riotous festival. Villagers who played at ‘turning the world upside’ would periodically decide they actually preferred the world upside down, and took measures to keep it that way.
Most peasants’ revolts are eventually suppressed, but sometimes, they topple empires.
—2022-05-01T14:10Z
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