Kōtoku Incident (幸徳事件, Kōtoku Jiken), was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji in 1910, leading to a mass arrest of leftists, as well as the execution of 12 alleged conspirators in 1911.

Uchiyama Gudō, born on this day in 1874, was a socialist Buddhist priest who opposed Japanese imperialism, oligarchic land ownership, and the rule of the Emperor. He was executed by the state in 1911 during the "High Treason Incident".

Gudō was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in 1897. In 1904, he became the abbot of Rinsenji temple in a poor area of a rural region of the Hakone Mountains. Village tradition states that every autumn Gudō would invite poor villagers to divide the harvest from the temple's only two trees equally among themselves.

Gudō was a self-identified socialist and outspoken advocate for redistributive land reform, overturning the Meiji emperor system, encouraging conscripts to desert en masse, and advancing democratic rights for all. He also criticized Zen leaders who claimed that low social position was justified by karma.

One of Gudō's most widely read and circulated works was a scathing denunciation of the Imperial Japanese government. Contradicting official state doctrine, he argued that the Emperors of the Imperial family were neither divine nor the destined rulers of Japan, and that their ancestors "came forth from a corner of Kyushu, killing and robbing people as they did. They then destroyed their fellow thieves."

Due to the popularity of Gudō's subversive publications, he was arrested in May 1909 and charged with violating press and publication laws. When police uncovered an alleged socialist plot to assassinate the Emperor (known as the "High Treason Incident"), Gudō was accused of being a co-conspirator.

In 1911, he, along with eleven other socialists, were convicted and executed. In July 1909, before Gudō's conviction, officials of the Sōtō Zen sect revoked Gudō'sabbotship.

"When I began reading the Heimin Shimbun at that time [1904], I realized that its principles were identical with my own and therefore I became an anarcho-socialist."

Uchiyama Gudō

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[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

This reminds me of 2019 when everyone decided to start saying “equity” instead of “equality”

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 3 hours ago

I had a student English teacher in 10th grade try this on me in like 2007. There were no AP classes until 11th so I was i leviathan in a small pond, this was borderline remedial. French Immersion was harder than normal school including English class and also ive just always had a knack for language stuff, so anyway I had finished an assignment a week early and the student teacher tried giving me extra work to do to cover the time. I didnt wanna do busywork and said that I'm just gonna do an equal amount of work as my classmates and that really if I did this work and it was graded there is no way it could help me cause im already pulling an easy A+, I was trying to read in class, I wasnt being disruptive. He tried to tell me the difference between equality and equity as if I didn't already know those words, which in all fairness, I was 16, but this was already a debate based around my precociousness. If we were working towards a common goal and not individual grades I would for sure take on extra work to alleviate others, but they tend to frown upon you doing other student's work for them. Equity therefore didnt come into play. In all fairness dude conceded and also gave me extra points on whatever I had turned in for stating my case well. I think i just stopped going shortly after cause it was 3/4 throufh and id aced everything so unless shit was scaled weird I had a pass. The next couple years were more engaging, but daaaaamn that class was like 4 years behind what we were doing in French immersion English classes. It all gets more integrated together in high school

[–] WilliamJenningsBryanJonestownMassacre@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

hmp! yes, and those radlib-circulated image macros , demarcating the differences between equity/equality/fairness, as if those were cleanly, analytically distinct, non-overlapping conceptual categories.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

term-defining is fine, you just can't hold everyone else to your definition in all contexts. we run into this because a bunch of illiterate internet users have a casual meaning in mind for words like racism.