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The taiping rebellion was always really interesting to me. Some starts saying he’s jesus’ brother, starts a christianity-derived cult in china, and then fights a civil war against the government which kills 30 million people, and no one ever talks about it. Just this huge, really weird event that’s largely unknown in the west. I should learn about it more
Yeah, it's super bizarre and was hugely devastating.
Mao had an interesting take on it. He said it was a proto-revolutionary rebellion because it was carried out by landless, dispossessed people, and their primary policy focus was land redistribution