https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/jesus-product-class-struggle-galilee

The Jesus movement presented itself as a vanguard millenarian party, custodians of a new theocracy serving the interests of the peasantry.

Jesus did vanguardism, smh.

  • StalinForTime [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I don’t remember who said it (might of been on here?), but I agree more with the take that the movement Jesus was part of is probably better understand as analogous to a modern liberal/reformist movement which becomes more preeminent once the more radical, violent Jewish groups are crushed with the defeat of the Maccabees in 37BCE.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The comparison works on a lot of levels, especially since Christianity was completely coopted by the Roman state once the movement picked up steam.