Thomas_More
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And with Moldova’s stance, Russia will be compelled to invade it as well, which will legitimise the western warmongers further, maybe finally provoke a European war.
Confucianism is about behaviour and material matters. Hierarchical matters, yes, but material ones, not idealism.
Confucianism isn’t really concerned with metaphysics. The Confucian rites are similar to the definition of rites in ancient Rome: about performance and the cementing of social cohesion.
Real tyranny came with the Imperial absolutism of Mao’s hero Ch’in Shih-huang, who burned the books of Confucius and his disciples.
Similarly, Mao set out to destroy Chinese literature, art and all history. Anything which did not glorify Mao. Libraries were emptied and all books failing to name Mao at least once on every page – in a footnote at the very least – were burned.I wouldn’t equate Maoism with Confucius under any circumstances. Mao doesn’t even count when it comes to centuries of Chinese history and civilisation. Like the ancient Legalists he admired, he was a destroyer first and foremost and an enemy to literature and art and to anything progressive in human society.
And the close of the 1950s saw the biggest deliberately inflicted famine, combined with kill quotas, aimed at decimating the rural population.
“…and sought to reproduce those conditions”?
The 1960s saw the very opposite in China, with both production and education stalled for years, as the young were turned loose on the elderly in a rampage of state-orchestrated violence and murder.
“…and sought to reproduce those conditions”?
The 1960s saw the very opposite in China, with both production and education stalled for years, as the young were turned loose on the elderly in a rampage of state-orchestrated violence and murder.
European states determined on war with Russia.
US authorises long-range missiles for Ukraine.
Children must be “fit for war.”
Why, generally, is it the elderly and retired element of the proletariat who are in favour of conscription and militarization (re: the Bundeswehr drills in Hamburg), and for sending their grandchildren off to die?
There has to be a serious flaw in their grandparental bond of affection instilled by nature, supposedly.
