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Doesn't come up to the modern day though.
Uhh...so the passage you mentioned, as well as a lot of Chinese philosophy, is concerned very much with governance. In Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy, Norden makes it clear that
>Many Westerners have a preconception of the Daodejing as otherworldly. In reality, the text has an urgent practical concern, rooted in the chaotic situation of the Warring States Period...
>The solution the Daodejing offers for the corruption and violence of contemporary life is to return to a primitive, agrarian utopia—the human condition before the corrupting influences of culture, literature, urbanization, laws, and advanced technology...
>How are we to return to the utopia of the distant past? The Daodejing shares with Confucianism a belief in the transformative power of a good ruler’s Virtue...
I still do think there is a lot of anarchist-like thoughts in Chinese philosophy in general. But, overall, the influence of Confucianism and it's conservative roots means you're going to have to take it out of context in most cases.