What religion is based on the teachings of Laozi?
Laozi Clark and Ursula K. Le Guin have written about the conjunction between anarchism and Taoism in various ways, highlighting the teachings of Laozi in particular. In her rendition of the Tao Te Ching, Le Guin writes that Laozi "does not see political power as magic. He sees rightful power as earned and wrongful power as usurped... He sees sacrifice of self or others as a corruption of power, and power as available to anyone who follows the Way. No wonder anarchists and Taoists make good friends." The right-libertarian economist Murray Rothbard suggested that Laozi was the first libertarian, likening Laozi's
Laozi ends. In a different context, various anti-authoritarian movements have embraced the Laozi teachings on the power of the weak. Laozi was a proponent of limited government. Left-libertarians in particular have been influenced by Laozi – in his 1937 book "Nationalism and Culture", the anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist Rudolf Rocker praised Laozi's "gentle wisdom" and understanding of the opposition between political power and the cultural activities of the people and community. In his 1910 article for the "Encyclopædia Britannica", Peter Kropotkin also noted that Laozi was among the earliest proponents of essentially anarchist concepts. More recently, anarchists such as John P.