thumb|Frederick Engels in May 1877 Völkerabfälle (in German) is a term used by Frederick Engels to describe small nations which he considered residual fragments of former peoples who had succumbed to more powerful neighbours in the historic process of social development and which Engels considered prone to become "fanatical standard-bearers of counter-revolution". This term was originally published in Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
thumb|Frederick Engels in May 1877 Völkerabfälle (in German) is a term used by Frederick Engels to describe small nations which he considered residual fragments of former peoples who had succumbed to more powerful neighbours in the historic process of social development and which Engels considered prone to become "fanatical standard-bearers of counter-revolution". This term was originally published in Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
He offers as examples: the Jacobites: "Such, in Scotland, are the Gaels, the supporters of the Stuarts from 1640 to 1745." the Chouannerie: "Such, in France, are the Bretons, the supporters of the Bourbons from 1792 to 1800." the First Carlist War: "Such, in Spain, are the Basques, the supporters of Don Carlos."
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).