On this day in 1894, the anti-colonial Donghak Peasant Rebellion began with the "Gobu Uprising", where 1,000 peasants stormed the county of Gobu, freeing prisoners, occupying government buildings, and causing the county ruler to flee.
The Donghak Peasant Rebellion was an uprising that took place in late Joseon-era Korea during the 1890s. "Donghak" refers to a religious movement, founded in 1860, which preached for social equality and the uplifting of the peasantry. Choe Jeu was executed by the state in 1864.
Amidst a backdrop of growing foreign influence in Korea (which would eventually lead to colonization by Japan), Donghak peasants rebelled against oppression by feudal rulers. The uprising began in the county of Gobu in Jeolla province, where the magistrate had extorted vast amounts of wealth and forced the peasants to build a reservoir.
On January 10th, 1894, approximately 1,000 peasant rebels gathered at an empty horse ranch, from which they split off into two separate armies where they successfully destroyed three of Gobu's four gates, occupied government offices, and set about destroying prisons and freeing the people held in them.
As rebels successfully defeated government forces, unrest would spread across the country, and the panicked Joseon dynasty called for Chinese Qing dynasty for support. Doing this, however, aggrieved the Japanese government, which was competing with China for influence over Korea.
Japan invaded Korea, occupying Seoul, triggering the First Sino-Japanese War. Following a temporary truce, the peasant rebellion would resume in October, this time directed towards the Japanese occupation.
The Japanese proved successful in defeating the uprising, however, continuing to quell rebels through 1895. Korea would become increasingly absorbed into Japan's sphere of influence before official annexation in 1910.
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ok rion i will cw the post and add a tone indicator. abuse
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i just didnt respond well to that poster becasue he was being agressive and vaugly misoginistic to me, and i really dont respond well when i feel like people are doing that. if he had asked nicely i wouldnt have had so much of a problem, i just dont like getting spoken to that way, i get it enough constantly. and yeah i am inatmilty familer with this subject in a way i dont want to get into. like i get told that im a bassicly an object consantly and that my partner is entieled to my time, labor, body, consantly by people in my life. a marrige is a encominic proprision. im never gonna be someones fucking property forced to live with a person who abuses me. so yeah i want a prenup where i can leave whenevr i want with out feeling trapped, and yeah thats a HORRIBLE finaclial desicsion for the person making money when they could just marry a womena nd get a free servent. im sorry but i repectuffly i think your projecting and its really upsetting rion becasue i liked you too. i have been abuse by so many people in my life, i never consented to being abused, starved, beaten, robbed. comparing a prenup to that feels so... im sorry i just disagreespoiler'd since it's a reply to CW'd text
That's totally fine and good! I actually remember making a really similar comment months ago, I wish I could link it but I don't think comments track back that far on my history (EDIT: found it) I don't have any problem with ensuring that you're never trapped in a relationship and are properly compensated for reproductive labor and other work that isn't "breadwinning". In fact, things probably would've gone much better for my mom if she'd had one.
Your initial post read differently to me, though, as being more about ruining the other person in case of divorce, and that specifically got to me given that my mom had her life nearly destroyed in a divorce, and is in many ways still recovering from it over a decade on. That connection feels fairly straightforward and not like projection to me. And again I don't think that was the way you wanted it come across, but that's how it did to me.
I hope that's not permanently in past tense now ;_; I generally don't like rocking the boat but what I read didn't sit right with me and I felt like I would be doing myself a disservice if I didn't say something
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not past tense at all! im sorry i was feeling super triggered, sometime discusions of abuse in general get overwhelming with me. esspecailly if i feel like im being acused (delt with darvo types). and yeah my first comment SHOULD hsve had a jk tag. I do think loving your partner as an equal is an objectively bad financial desision but i could have explained that thought procces more.also like theres no threat of poverty unless something (godforbid) horrible happens, but thats also something not clear in the joke. no hard feelong from me rion, that first poster just put me on the defensive and like my pstd isnt so much an issue anymore but when it is i just kinda shut down so im sorry.It's okayβI've been having a bad time as of late so I'm probably more sensitive than I'd normally be. Ty for talking more with me about this, I feel like I got a lot more perspective reading about your pov and experiences