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You're kidding right? Chinese philosophy always talks about a golden age prior to when the state didn't exist. Even the current Chinese Communist government believes in the idea of primitive communism, that is before the slave societies of e.g. the Shang dynasty, there were more or less stateless societies. Although already by the Zhou dynasty philosophers were stating that societal changes, specialization, etc. made going back to such ways close to impossible.



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