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  9. Mao's millennialist "progressive" socialist cult is similar to those that have risen and fell several times in history. These apocalyptic cults appear during or after unrest, great wars, famine, or at the coming of a new millennium. Mao became his follower's messiah, and each time, in history, they always lead to a tyrannical despot that hides behind a religious cult and prophesy, which is either hidden or public. In China, one example was Hong Xiuquan (b. 1814), using the ideology of the White Lotus groups, he brought about the Taiping Revolution / Rebellion. Hong claimed to be the brother of Christ. "For over a decade, the Taiping occupied and fought across much of the mid and lower Yangtze valley. Ultimately devolving into total war, the conflict between the Taiping and the Qing was the largest in China since the Qing conquest in 1644 and it involved every province of China proper except Gansu. It ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the 19th century. Estimates of the war dead range from 10–30 million. 30 million people fled the conquered regions to foreign settlements or other parts of China." Massive death always follows these millennialist cults. "Millennialism, or chiliasm, is a belief advanced by some religious denominations that a Golden Age or Paradise will occur on Earth prior to the final judgment and future eternal state of the 'World to Come.'" Marx and others were always seeking their golden age.
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