Communism versus Confucianism in Contemporary China
Channel: Salvatore Babones
Date: 2016-04-25

Communist China claims to be a democracy, but a democracy of a very different (and, it claims, better) kind than Western liberal democracies.

Yet Communist China itself is rapidly giving up Marx and Engels in favor of its homegrown philosopher Confucius.

Vietnam is similarly de-emphasizing Marx and Engels in favor of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh.

China's resurgent Confucianism in many ways provides a philosophical basis for China's illiberal approach to non-representative, technocratic "democracy."