A rare westerner with some real understanding about China: Xi is the most formidable rival
From Dr Quan Le – China Writer’s Group
Xi is the most formidable rival the West has ever encountered because he’s a true aristocratic man of the highest order, surrounded by aristocratic men of the highest order acknowledging him as primus inter pares and endowed with a state apparatus built through many ordeals since 1921, united by a common goal they stated crystal clear : restoring China’s glory. In my way of speaking, restoring the Chinese Empire.
And we all know the sequence : wealth, power, prestige, glory.
I did not call Xi a Philosopher King not from disrespect, on the contrary, but because it’s too grand and I think Xi would agree. A Philosopher King is a creator of civilization. Xi is a protector of a civilization which already exists.
China fell during the nineteenth century not because her ruling class was corrupt (corruption was rampant during the most glorious periods of Imperial China) BUT because her elite was mired deeply in complacency.
Xi Jinping is not ESSENTIALLY fighting corruption, economic difficulties or poverty, but COMPLACENCY and he’s doing everything he can for creating and for sustaining ENTHUSIASM within the Chinese population.
** COMPLACENCY ** : SMUG SATISFACTION WITH ONESELF OR ONE’S PAST OR PRESENT ACHIEVEMENTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN ACCOMPANIED BY UNAWARENESS OF ACTUAL DANGERS OR DEFICIENCIES.
** ENTHUSIASM ** : THE DIVINE WITHIN
** TRADITION ** IS NOT THE WORSHIP OF DEAD ASHES BUT THE LIVING TRANSMISSION OF THE INNER FLAME, OF ENTHUSIASM.
And that is absolutely at the center of the creation of the D.A.O., the Devoted Aristocratic Oligarchy for establishing the Everlasting Civilization.
As daunting as it might appear, the real challenge was not when China was backward and downtrodden. When China was backward and downtrodden, the few Chinese devoted aristocratic men can count on the motivations coming from ** The Lower Trigram ** from the Animal Kingdom, for survival, for peace & order, for economic development, for intellectual growth, for social sophistication, what normal human animals are spontaneously driven to embody and to achieve when their leaders manage to offer them a performing organization, the needed tools and resources.
The moment truly fraught with dangers for China is right now and I’m not thinking to the pathetic and utterly laughable gesticulations coming from NATO (North Atlantic Terrorist Organization) & the KFC-AZAEL (Kakistocratic Feudal Conglomerate of the Anglo-Zio-American EstabLishment).
How to make the mental energies of ** The Upper Trigram manifest in Time as Justice, Valor, Humanity, Wisdom ** in the hearts of as many people as possible ?
China can still live from the mental energies from the Animal Kingdom motivations of the Chinese people for maybe another generation because China’s inner regions are not as developed as her eastern coast but the basic everlasting challenge remains.
How to uplift the motivations from ** The Healthy Animal Time Drives ** (extremely powerful) to ** The Aristocratic Timeless Drives ** (even more powerful and contrary to the Animal Kingdom motivations, endless because the exploration of the inner and outer Realities has no limits) ?
And making those timeless aristocratic drives manifest in as many people as possible.
Ceterum censeo KFC-AZAEL-nem esse delendam
PAX SINICA PERSICA KOREANA RUSSICA
IMPERIUM MUNDI SEMPER INVICTUS
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Accompanying article:ย https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/xi-jinpings-faustian-moment/
For Trigrams, refer to the I Ching
I took this reference to aristocrat to have some resonance with ‘the superior man’ of Lao Tzu’s writings?
i wonder if this might be a cultural/translation/language issue? on first read i paused on the word, but decided the meaning might refer to spirit, thought, inner presence. confucius possessed a rare fineness of mind, thought & spirit. xi’s vision & ability to bring his nation to work to bring… Read more »
Strange use of terms from this author. Whatever you think an aristocrat to be, I doubt you can think of one who doesn’t possess some degree of privilege. I don’t think you’d be an aristocrat if you had no privilege. But I don’t necessarily disagree because it seems he means… Read more »
Yes well said, he may in part mean “aristocracy” as originally termed by the Platonic. A noble sincere stewardship of his people. These were standards respected in most traditional societies of the old world. But how many remember history?? These concepts have been thoroughly corrupted by the modern western kleptocratic… Read more »
AHH: Thank you. I love the way you tied it all together. “A noble sincere stewardship of the people” The socialist piece in the “aristocratic perspective” being the revolutionary movement to hold the two principles (aristocracy and the masses) in a mutually strengthening unity, rather than in what has historically… Read more »
That Xi is a Chinese aristocrat is obvious. That its marxist is ridiculous. The etymology from Greek means best of the ruling class. The only ruling class in Marxist Communism is the People. Don’t take my word for it ๐ My biggest doubt about Marxism, and I am a favourable… Read more »
Aristocracy as I understand it here, and as they explain Xi Jinping’s ‘power’ is not that it is of himself. It is the I Ching concept, and what Xi is doing is to move all toward The Aristocratic Timeless Drives. And the methods that he uses are to fight complacency… Read more »
You have got it right Amarynth. This article obliges us to shift our thinking with regard to what we mean by the term “aristocratic.” Rather than think of the word in the traditional Western manner as denoting a privileged social class relation, the author is pushing us to understand the… Read more »
As for bourgeoise propaganda about the aristocracy well I think that’s a stretch ๐ The bourgeois depends on the elite class for their occupations and income so that simply is not a “thing” Anyway The Aristos do a grey job of displaying their merits and deficits without any help. As… Read more »
Wikipedia has a very good page on aristocracy.
I was concerned by the word also, but the wiki entry made sense of it.
This is a very valuable article in my estimation. As it casts light on the inner heart of China’s capacity for world leadership at this critical time. The Chinese leadership has spoken of their intent to create a “socialist spiritual civilization.” I agree with the author that Xi displays the… Read more »
Yes, Marxism and aristocracy n the face of it appears completely contradictory. At the writer’s group, Quan has had the traditional Marxists sometimes in tizzies for his explanations of the flow of these contradictions. I thought this was very valuable because we don’t get a lot of data on Xi,… Read more »
I might be wrong Amarynth but as i understand it, they say communist but not yet socialist? Socialism being the goal and communism the political and organisational means. This is also observably true imo.
Geez — I’ll shoot the question to the China Writer’s Group because now I have myself confused as well.
I have an answer for us K. “According to the PRC’s officialese, it’s crystal clear that a communist society is the ideal, the horizon to which they aspire to. In order to go there, the different phases of a socialist society are needed. *Scientific socialism* is the tool, the means… Read more »
Thanks Amarynth, i did get confused. So even though its currently called Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, the aim is actually Communism with Chinese characteristics. My thinking is that socialism can potentially exist without Communism, but Communism as an end goal can’t exist without Socialism as a first step.
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” At the writerโs group, Quan has had the traditional Marxists sometimes in tizzies for his explanations of the flow of these contradictions.” So very believable Amarynth. I run into the same thing myself all the time. The Western mind has long been marinated in the patriarchal perspective of an alienated… Read more »