Of course, some of their ideas are like Confucianism, though they don't speak of it. The great Chinese tragedy consists of the fact that the Chinese style of government is very well-entrenched. With power you have the official, and the advice of the scholar, the passive obedience of the ordinary people. And all of those are inadequate to these modern problems.
不過在我看來，那些舊傳統的主要概念：中央集權、知識分子只能扮演視死如歸的規諫者，而廣大平民在君臣思想下既無知又溫馴… …，這樣的結構不徹底改變，是不足以因應中國的現代化的。