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.
Russia seems to be much stronger now, with all its new BRICS allies. It is the US which is imploding, and Europe is economically killing itself whilst courting military self-destruction.
I remember an old interview with an arrested Khmer Rouge leader where the interviewer said in passing, “Now, you are Communists, …”
The KR leader at that point burst into uncontrollable chuckling.That’s the same as with the Jacobins. In the Journal des débats of the 1790s it is all personal attacks and rivalries.
Bolshevik groups and govts too.The terror has passed, with the Leninist hysteria. But it remains a one-party dictatorship.
It has allowed western pop culture and has opened to world markets. I don’t know if there were capitalists independent of the state machine. There certainly are now. The revolution ended in 1976 and apart from one-party rule and archaisms such as the death penalty, China now is no different from other states. Just less “liberal” and more authoritarian. In fact, not really different from Russia.
For socialists, living there would be much harsher, as no one can form a party or resist military service, without severe punishment.
