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Interesting read on Chinese Communist Ideology and motivations, specifically Xi Jinping


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30 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Hmm. Interestingly there is no mention of Confucius at all. Whereas, the narrative among the West now, is that Xi/China are going back to it's roots in Confucius.

 

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How did Confucius go from being reviled for most of the 20th century to being revered in the 21st? No doubt China’s leader, Xi Jinping, recognized that Confucius could be used to instill and maintain obedience to authority, as done by the emperors of old. For Xi, the revolution and class struggle that marked the Marxist years is over and what China needs in the 21st century is stability, discipline, adherence to party doctrines, and, of course, obedience and reverence to Xi. With Marxism dead in the new China, why not harness Confucius to the Orwellian mind-control of the surveillance state over which Xi rules today?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/23/opinion/wheresoever-china-goes-it-goes-with-confucius-its-heart/

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