The Boxer Rebellion took place at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, and its influence was good and bad, so some people think that he is just and some people think it is unjust, so which faction does it belong to? In fact, the so-called justice and injustice is to see whether its actions conform to the law of historical development and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, and now we will analyze whether the Boxer Rebellion is in line with justice from the nature, purpose, and merits of the Boxer Rebellion.
The nature of the Boxer Rebellion
It belongs to the peasant anti-imperialist patriotic movement, with anti-feudal nature, but at the same time it is backward.
Judging from the environment at that time, the Boxer Rebellion's opposition to the division of the great powers, the resistance to the Eight-Power Alliance, and so on were indeed manifestations of the nature of love. It is in the fundamental interest of the greatest majority of the people to overthrow the feudal regime and to oppose feudal exploitation and oppression. However, because of its generality and blind xenophobia, China's backwardness cannot be ignored. By its very nature it is still righteous in general.
The purpose of the Boxer Rebellion
The purpose of the Boxer Rebellion changed with the current situation. With the development of society and the aggression of the imperialist powers, the purpose of the Boxer Rebellion was changed from simply overthrowing the Qing government to the Qing government and the Western powers.
Later, because China fell into a situation of being divided up by the imperialist powers, in order to prevent the aggression of the imperialist powers, the Boxers once again changed their purpose and began to stand on the united front with the Qing government to jointly stop the aggression of the great powers. So from its purpose it is also righteous.
The exploits of the Boxer Rebellion
First, it successfully prevented the imperialist powers from dividing up China.
Second, it has contributed to preserving China's long-standing culture for thousands of years. Because it prevented the imperialist powers from dividing up China, it naturally protected China's culture.
Third, a possible imperialist war was contained. It can be seen from the fact that the two Japanese and Russian imperialists in the back will not hesitate to fight a war for the territory of our northeast, and if they do not succeed in stopping the imperialist powers at this time, then they will inevitably have a battle for our territory.
Fourth, it has promoted the ideological consciousness of the broad masses of the people in our country and laid the foundation for the great victory of the Chinese people fifty years later.
So in terms of his merits, he also belongs to justice.
Analyzing the Boxer Rebellion from the above three aspects, he belongs to justice, and it seems that he cannot find a point of injustice, in fact, it is not, because the development of world culture and civilization affect each other, and the Boxer Rebellion blindly excludes all imperialism, making western culture and industry unable to flow into China, causing the backwardness of Chinese culture, just like Western countries use the four major inventions of our country to help them end the "dark age".
We can also use Western culture to promote the development of our culture. At the same time, because of their blind exclusion of all imperialism, they killed many innocent foreigners, thus directly causing many innocent Chinese to suffer, so many people believe that the Boxer Rebellion was unjust.
Man is a two-sided person, not to mention things, so we cannot decide him from one side, the key is that the Boxer Rebellion is in line with the law of historical development and the interests of the majority of the people, so in general it belongs to justice.