sahaliyan
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Confucius never said the monarch is the least important,mencius said compare with people and country,monarch is not most important,but then again this not means monarch is not important,Confucius also said 臣事君以忠(the subjects should serve the monarch with loyalty)Why does the monarch have to be equal to the country? Are there no countries without monarchs? Confucius said that the monarch is the least important. And what does Confucius say about family values? Obedience, or dependency? What are, indeed, family values? I believe that in 1950's-1980's China, there was much stronger family values than in 1840's-1930's. Even today there are stronger family values than 1840's-1930's.
You do not remember life from 1930's - ask those who lived through it and weren't rich. You only know movies and books - romanticized movies and books. You do not know that you would even like living in a purely Confucian monarchy.
In the past, there was 榷盐,榷铁,the first state owned monopolies for the distribution of goods, during the Han Dynasty. The natural evolution of Chinese history - science, trade, moving towards equality. Chinese society moved from a weak society of small farmers ruled by despotic warlords and kings - to a strong empire with centralized monarchy and finally to republicanism and a scientific, trading and military great power.
You aren't treated disrespectfully because you are small, you are treated disrespectfully because you deserve it.
Why monarch is important in anciet China?Because without a monarch,there was no peace,and if everyone want to be monarch,then the country will be in chaos.After all,this is social contract,the monarches have government,army,jail and so on to protect his subjects from war and crime.Without these,can you live in a country?If you attacked by a mob,how can you do?In every society,these problems exist.Every societies should have a rule,this is simple.Even the monarch is a tyant,one tyant is still better than millions tyants,so in a cociety,only can be one monarch.You can use modern values against this,but it's senseless.
Then 1930s not Confucian society,but a capitalist one,the peasents were already suffer in poverty,the reason of the poverty is capitalist invasion,destroyed the Chinese small farming system.The Confucian society was based on small farmers,there were no real landlords in China,because no one own serfs,someone have more farmland,but if they want those farmland get used,they should rent the lands to poorer farmers,still he has no feudal rights on the poorer farmers,only thing he can did is to get the rents from his farmland.This is not the landlordism of Russia and west Europe,all of those farmers(rich and poor) are equal in the law.
As for family values,I favour bigger family,and don't get the liberal ideas such as feminism,gay(lesbian),the infant abortion and so on