Claims / C-XHWFF36JHT
Conjecture
A new doctrine that explicitly repudiates the old one can be adopted only by taking over the old one's structural role, so the old constellation's shape returns under new content: the canon, the exam corps and the restoring emperor survive the change of text. Ansary, ch. 25: Mao was "a reincarnation of that familiar mythic Chinese figure, the emperor who confirms the never-ending cycle of time"; "Maoism explicitly repudiated Confucianism, yet, structurally speaking, Maoism performed the same social function as that ancient doctrine. It enabled an interconnectivity that drew many into one"; "the scholars were not trained in the Confucian classics. Instead, they had to pass muster in the Maoist canon"; "narratives born in a misty past endure as ghostly forces in the world of today." That a collective's new structure should be checked for which old role it is silently refilling, is Leo's step.
Evidence 4 passages
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Mao himself was in many ways a reincarnation of that familiar mythic Chinese figure, the emperor who confirms the never-ending cycle of time
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Maoism explicitly repudiated Confucianism, yet, structurally speaking, Maoism performed the same social function as that ancient doctrine. It enabled an interconnectivity that drew many into one.
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But in this case, the scholars were not trained in the Confucian classics. Instead, they had to pass muster in the Maoist canon
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narratives born in a misty past endure as ghostly forces in the world of today.
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