The big Supreme Court ruling that opens the floodgates to corporate cash flowing into elections takes as its key assumption that corporations are, essentially, persons.  Or, at least, that is what five justices believe.   Four others disagreed.  Justice Steven wrote the dissent, in which he rejects the central assumption:

Stevens hammers, more than once this morning from the bench on the
principle that corporations "are not human beings" and "corporations
have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires."
He insists that "they are not themselves members of 'We the People' by
whom and for whom our Constitution was established."

Confucius would agree.  Corporations are businesses, driven by profit motive.  Not only do they have no feelings or thoughts, but they also have no parents, no children, no relatives.  They lack the fundamental familial and social duties that make humans human.  And given their basic purpose of profit-making they are, for Confucius and Mencius, fundamentally destructive of Humanity.  Remember these words from the Analects:

The Master said: “If
there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it   meant being a stooge standing around with a
whip.  But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.” (7.12)

子曰：“富而可求也，雖執鞭之士，吾亦為之。如不可求，從吾所好.”

Mencius agrees.  When talking with Sung K’eng about a plan to convince
political leaders that they should avoid war with the argument that “there’s no
profit in it,” Mencius pressed back:

  “Your intent is noble, but your appeal
misguided. If you talk to these emperors
about profit, and in their love of
profit they stop their armies – their armies will rejoice in peace and delight in profit. Soon ministers will embrace profit in serving their sovereign, sons will embrace
profit in serving their fathers, younger brothers
will embrace profit in serving their elder brothers – and all of them will have abandoned Humanity and Duty. When these relationships become a matter of profit, the nation is doomed to ruin.”
(12.4)

曰：先生之志則大矣，先生之號則不可。先生以利說秦楚之王，秦楚之王悅於利，以罷三軍之師，是三軍之士樂罷而悅於利也。為人臣者懷利以事其君，為人子者懷利以事其父，為人弟者懷利以事其兄。是君臣、父子、兄弟終去仁義，懷利以相接，然而不亡者，未之有也.

But corporations are not even stooges with whips.  They are inanimate, impersonal and, ultimately, inhumane.  They should not be treated in the same manner as persons.  If they are allowed to infuse the profit motive into all human relationships, the nation is doomed to ruin…