Green Confucianism: ecology, class and the Green Movement.
Synthesis/Regeneration › Nbr. 2003, September 2003
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Green Confucianism: ecology, class and the Green Movement.
The regulatory role of the Confucian scholar in feudal China was to warn the Emperor and other officials of the landlord ruling class when their squeeze on the peasantry became so severe that revolt might be provoked. The best of these scholars were quite sincere in their belief in Confucian ethics. This, however, did not negate the fact that in social reality they were acting as a stabilizing mechanism to maintain the system of landlord oppression. Curiously, much of the Green Movement can be understood in the same way.
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