I don't think the Swedish peasantry was very desperate. They were well-organized and quite wealthy. I'd put them as upper middle class. The equivalent of their

I don't think the Swedish peasantry was very desperate. They were well-organized and quite wealthy. I'd put them as upper middle class. The equivalent of their level of military organization would probably not be minivans, it would be something like rolling out barbed wire, laying smoke, digging trenches with machines, mortar teams, snipers and ordinary riflemen. Something which in practice would be impossible to deal with and which would immediately necessitate negotiations. I'm not propagating for that though, but I do think there is a similarity to the learning process-- how the Swedish peasantry chose to develop this capacity and strengthened it until it was useful. Think of humans as these epsilon-greedy things, which with probability epsilon go and explore the payoff space. I think people see that things are being done to them that cross the line of screwing them over to something like crushing them, and this makes attempting to get back at those doing the crushing to get them to back off rational. Thus I think that it's reasonable to expect an exploration of violence to see where good payoffs can be had and where you can deterrence.