You know, /liberty/, every once in a while I just pick a random atrocity, famine or tyrant from my mental list and check what's to blame. Almost every time, the results are among the following:
>Democracy
>Socialism
>Egalitarianism
>Collectivism
>Ooga booga how do into civilization
Lately, I checked for Hong Xiquan and his Taiping Rebellion. This rebellion killed about twenty million people during the 19th century, although very few people have heard about it. I looked into it, and here's an excerpt from Wikipedia I found:
>Within the land that it controlled, the Taiping Heavenly Army established a totalitarian, theocratic, and highly militarized rule.[10]
>The subject of study for the examinations for officials changed from the Confucian classics to the Bible.
>Private property ownership was abolished and all land was held and distributed by the state.[11]
>A solar calendar replaced the lunar calendar.
>Foot binding was banned. (The Hakka people had never followed this tradition, and consequently the Hakka women had always been able to work the fields.[12])
>Society was declared classless and the sexes were declared equal. At one point, for the first time in Chinese history civil service exams were held for women. Some sources record that Fu Shanxiang, an educated woman from Nanjing, passed them and became an official at the court of the Eastern King.
>The sexes were rigorously separated.[13] There were separate army units consisting of women only; until 1855, not even married couples were allowed to live together or have sexual relations.[14]
>The Qing-dictated queue hairstyle was abandoned in favor of wearing the hair long.
>Other new laws were promulgated including the prohibition of opium, gambling, tobacco, alcohol, polygamy (including concubinage), slavery, and prostitution. These all carried death penalties.
Abolition of private property and a classless society. I rest my case.