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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slow day at your university’s Confucius Institure, OP?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute[/quote]

What is your point?  Confucian philosophy is just a way of ethics that guide people’s relationship with others.  You just sound confused.  It’s adoption is more pronounced in places like Korea and in Japan. [/quote]
Vietnam as well.  But let’s face it, Confucius Institutes are not about the philosophy but rather promoting Communist China.  For much of its existence Red China was intent on stamping out Confucian values as backward and oppressive to the masses.  The Cultural Revolution was a particularly brutal time for those who held to the philosophy.[/quote]

South Korea and Japan are Confucius societies. No one has ever accused these countries of being communists.

Confucious was born before Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. That’s more than 2000 years before Karl Marx. It has nothing to do with communism. If anything, it’s a very conservative philosophy as it tends to be law and order. [/quote]
I’m not sure what your point is.  The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to destroy traditional Chinese society and customs and philosophy and impose Maoism on the population.  Even Confucius’ cemetery was intentionally desecrated and destroyed during this period of millions of deaths.  Mao though has been thoroughly discredited and consigned to the ash heap of history only to be replaced by tyrants now insidiously promoting “Xi Jinping thought”.
While Communist China has perverted and twisted Confucianism, the Republic of China has well preserved the ancient teaching and I would recommend to all with serious interest in the philosophy to travel this country for first hand study.[/quote]

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