'Confusionists', Mao and urban morality

It is hard to understand and reconcile the appeal of Maoist thought and its
communist drive in China with the freewheeling turbo-capitalism one sees in the
same country nowadays. The simple - and certainly true - answer is that people
miss the egalitarian spirit even though they do not pine for the poverty and
social and political duress of the past, writes Francesco Sisci. Read more