So Confucious directed everyone in society to function as an extended family. So (a) no law only command, (b) reasonableness and harmony, not truth, adversarialism and markets, (c) brutality, (d) stagnation but (e) success at forced incremental expansion, conquest, integration.
Source date (UTC): 2020-07-30 17:31:47 UTC
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@bishkebab3 @Coronakrise5 Read page 25+ in The Great Transformation. The relationship between aristocracy and peasantry, and the despotism in china goes back forever.
Conversely, why was that relationship different in europe?
Militia.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Transformation-Beginning-Religious-Traditions/dp/0375413170/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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