Ready for ?
The Chinese Communist Party ?
There’s a lot to be said for discontent.
Confucianism was and is, strongly opposed to the Communist party. And vice versa. The Communist party tries to bulldoze Confucian temples far more than even Christian or Buddhist, and much more than Taoist (who generally thrive by keeping to themselves).
Yet Confucianism is so hated because it reminds Communism of why it eventually will fail.
Btw, if you trace back the roots of Chinese communism, it is less like Russian communism, and has more to do with a school of thought known as Mohism. Mohism advocates universal love, abstaining from ceremonies, and a sort of blanket equality. The problem of universal love, thoygh is that it fails to understand that treating everything equally is fine if you're a Taoist and mostly stay out of gove or actively advise it to doas little as possible. But trying to provide equality is like the picture of people looking into a baseball game with a wall in the way. It involves either treating everyone equally and letting them succeed or fail (the short kid won't be able to see over the wall), or overmanaging and in fact not treating everyone equally. The picture is of the shorter kid getting a box to stand on, but this sort of heavy-handed meddling not only makes those who do something feel burdened for their own success, but if the government is willing to meddle to support people it likes, it is also means the government will likely hinder those who are "too privileged." China had a famine because it stabbed its farmer in the back.
Confucianism on the other hand, understood that rewarding worth was more important than treating people equally . Taoism like Mohism, didn't value the worthy but they did it because they saw the risk of competing over merit as bad, not out of a misguided sense of equality. That people should try to find their own ambitions, not compete with others. Bottom line, Mohism sucks, as do its Communist descendants.
You should read Mencius. Confucius has alot of nonsense statements about "this is how the master shaves, and this is how he drink tea, and this is how he sleeps." I didn't find it a good read, whereas Mencius remarks about just as it's the duty of the governed to show filial piety to the ruler, the ruler must also serve their people. He tells that taxes should be capped at 10% and the ruler should ensure people have farmland and housing because they contribute when they have food and clothes and are happy. That they should concentrate on not making too many rules but treating people as their children (not to be confused with treating them like children). He also mentions a park which seems big, then shows that such place doesn't allow hunting (and in modern days, you can't sleep on the bench), and he says the reason it seems big is that it is like gaping pit that people stay clear of. They can't enjoy it, there are too many rules, abd they get caught.
, can't go wrong with that
