-- Tyler Durden wrote:
Fascinating. And typical of the unusual Chinese seesaw that has occurred throuout the aeons between hyper-strict centralized control and something approaching a lite version of anarchy. There's no good mapping of this into Western ideas of fascism, marxism, and economics.
Maps near enough. The Chinese concept of "legalism" is barely distinguishable from German concepts of communism and nazism. However Confucianism vs Daoism/Taoism is rather different from what you would get in the west. Confucianism is somewhat similar to what you would get if western cultural conservatives allied themselves with nazi/commies, in the way that the commies are prone to imagine conservatives have supposedly allied themselves with nazis. Taoism somewhat similar to what you would get if anarcho capitalists allied themselves with pagans and wiccans, in the way that conservatives are prone to imagine that they have, though in reality the pagans and wiccans line up with the greenies and nazis, for the most part. This is the result of a Chinese heritage of politicide and mass murder, whereas the west has a heritage of compromise and negotiation. So in the west, we have ordinary people forbidden from doing banking stuff, but a pile of loopholes in that law, and we do not have the death penalty for unauthorized banking, whereas in China, they do have the death penalty, and despite the death penalty, massive defiance of the law. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG NWin7CjdJuYCUBbj9jwfYAiCHobTuUO1Bw3DLogP 4Unpss2ukPbY+HeKKDTu441IpswCXzfXLuU2FCphs