Ep. 302 | Chinese Anarchists of the Late Qing
The China History Podcast
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The Anarchists of the Tongmung Hik
The paris group were on board with all the classic ideals that europe's anarchists called for, abolishing laws and eliminating all traces of classes in society. Despite the obvious contradiction of an anarchist joining a political party, all of them became members of the tongmung hik. Like the tokio group, these anarchists said change came from the bottom up. Any movement that ignored the lower classes was no movement at all. It was just a power grab. The idea was to educate the people so that they could think for themselves and not have to rely on a government to tell them what was right or wrong.
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