ABSTRACT
Basing themselves on the Confucian ideology, the nlite ra tiM criticized Shang Yang for abandoning the "Principle" [taopj ] while manipulating ” pow er” f chfúanホ又] ，fo r d iscard ing ” v ir tu e ” í t e í 愛、] while re ly in g on ” m igh t” [ l i 力 ] , for w orsh iping TTp ro f itM [ l i 余.〕] w hile neg lec tingT'righteousnesstT [ and fo r prom oting ” m igRt” and emphasizing nm e r it” f kung功 ] . In actual fact, there is no class regime that does not have high regard for upower,TT Mprofi t，” ”might，” and "m erit.” Chairman Mao points out : ”M aterialists do not oppose utilitarianism in general, but rather the utilitarianism of the feudal, bourgeois, and petty bourgeois c lasses； they oppose those hypocrites who attack utilitarianism in words but in deeds em brace the most selfish and shortsighted utilitarianism . There is no nis m ” in the w o rld that transcends u tilita r ia n considerations ; in class society there can be only the utilitarianism of this or that c lass” (Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, p. 821). The Confucianists were in reality the hypocrites who embraced the most selfish utilitarianism of the slave-owning class. In their advocacy of
1 ) See "On Ch’ in Documentsn [C h fin hsien ch i 春 ^ ^ 古£j] in the first chüan of The Essays of T fai-yen [T fai-yen wen-lu ホJ Ü C 氣 ] by Chang Ping-lin
4) See chapter TfOn Books” [S h u - c h i e h in C ritical Essays [ Lun Heng - ^ ^ j ] • '
