The world that made Confucius – and the China he made

“Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” This famous 11th thesis from Karl Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach is engraved on his tombstone in Highgate Cemetery in London.

It was meant to be a refutation of another famous saying, by G.W.F.

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