Posted on 05/20/2010 4:02:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
TIBETAN spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says he's a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to China, the communist country that exiled him.
"Still I am a Marxist," the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived today with an entourage of robed monks and a heavy security detail to give a series of paid public lectures.
"(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits," the Dalai Lama, 74, said.
However, he credited China's embrace of market economics for breaking communism's grip over the world's most populous country and forcing the ruling Communist Party to "represent all sorts of classes".
"(Capitalism) brought a lot of positive to China. Millions of people's living standards improved," he said.
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I always knew the Dalai Lama was completely ineffective and sort of useless all around. This confirms my thinking that he really isn’t all that bright. He means well, and I am sure he believes in sort of a voluntary communism where coercion need not be applied to get people to go along. Still, just the fact that he believes Marxism is a good idea means he does not understand human nature and therefore is not suited for any type of leadership position.
The Dalai Parton is a lot smarter.
The DL has got a lot of time to think...about BS.
The more some people sit around and think the dumber they get...here is a prime example.
So much for “ocean of wisdom”. He thinks forced redistribution (aka STEALING) is moral.
Anybody who didn’t think the Dalai Lama was a Marxist was out of their minds. That’s why he was so popular with the left...until, of course, the ur-Marxists emerged, and the left dropped the poor Dalai Lama and he had to exit the White House next to the trash cans.
This dope also had good things to say about Islam
That's as stupid as being a Jew who votes Democrat, especially for Obama. The Marxists devastated his people! He's a "spiritual leader" no more, as far as I'm concerned.
You come up with irrational bullshit like this.
...Marxists are anti-religion.
“Nothing like Buddhist with Marxist morals ....”
Maybe he’s a Bootyist like Tiger!
The Dalai Lama is a mental midget.
"(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits," the Dalai Lama, 74, said.
I just changed my mind! Red Chinese government, go ahead, arrest Dalai Lama and have your way with him. Show the pacifist bastard who's boss!
Totally explains why every person in Hollywood is in love with him...he is a fraud. Marxism is responsible for how many deaths in history? Communism how many?
Can’t wait to hear from the Beastie Boys.
No wonder Tibet is occupied, owned, and controlled by China.
Thats an awesome sign but it omits one major socialist: Hitler.
“Still I am a Marxist,”
“..... to give a series of PAID public lectures.”
Amusing..
Figured as much, why else would the a0 have him at the White House
Did he really say that!?! He may be a big hitter, the Dalai, but if this is how he feels, he can kiss my “unenlightened” ass!
Marxism is all about materialism. It is an economic political ideology, and everywhere it has been tried it has created massive deaths and despair. It is easy to talk about being a Marxist when you live in a Capitalist society. Here is a guy that people worship as a living god and reigned as an absolute monarch in his own country talking about the ethics of Marxism. No one in his right mind would want to live in a Marxist society.
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