The status of "Confucian orthodoxy" which Neo-Confucianism established was nominal. New-Confucianism was a bad bargain to get the support and high praise at the cost of its cultural essence.

理学“道统”地位的确立，盛名之下其实难副，以牺牲理学的文化精髓为代价来换取理学的崇隆，未免得不偿失。

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The first is what seems to have inspired Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of the country's biggest union, Unite, to describe Labour's economic policy as "a victory for discredited Blairism... the last gasp of neo liberalism" which was dragging the party into "the swamp of bond market orthodoxy".

BBC: Labour: Misunderstanding or division?