Posted on 06/10/2011 8:07:27 AM PDT by DaveTesla
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Thursday that he is a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to the communist country that exiled him -- China.
"Still I am a Marxist," the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived 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."
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How has Marxism worked out in Tibet?
Now, a change of name and title: Daliar 0lama
I think both systems have their problems, but capitalism seems to be the better option for the most people, although in this age of globalization, I am beginning to wonder if it will remain that way.
I guess that the smart llamas are the ones who live in the Andes.
Anyway, the Dalai one is more Marxist than Marx. Marx regarded morality as just an ideological outgrowth of the economic system, and the change to communism was merely to be the triumph of one economic class over another.
So the Dalai Lama has made a great moral mistake, and thereby incurred much bad karma. He will now be obliged to be reborn again, and we will all presumably suffer more such idiocy from him in his future incarnations, with no sign that he is actually making progress toward nirvana.
I have been a Buddhist for over 15 years.. I am seriously going home tonight and burning my Tibetan Prayer Flags.. It just goes to show that any religion / way of life can have an a*****e for a leader..
Hello?! Dalai?
That said, the Lama may be hoping to be allowed to return to China, and sees this as his path. There is also the factor that the monastic life in a land as harsh as Tibet must seem to have a lot in common with the concept of the collective farm in Communist agriculture.
I will then cut him some slack, although that does not mean his statement is not absurd, as a moral proposition.
So then he is both suicidal AND stupid?
Capitalism a pejorative invented by Marx for the free market.
Free markets = prosperity and freedom.
Marxism = oppression, starvation, slavery, theft and death.
In short:
Capitalists SERVE their customers.
Marxists STARVE their customers.
“So we’ve got that going for us... which is NICE!”
And so it goes.
When man tries to build heaven on earth he always succeeds in creating hell...
Blaspheme away you apologizing, historical revisionist.
Wait! I KNOW this one!
It's on the tip of my tongue... the word starts with "M"... I know it has an "X" in it... and it ends in "ISTS"
AR!
I JUST can't think of it right now..
So you’re saying he’s the ‘Homer Simpson’ of world ‘religious leaders’?
Or mayne a Maosochist?
The Dalai Lamas weren't exactly the practise what they preach types.....If you want check up on the history before the commies, or look at Penn and Tellers segment on them (note: Penn and Teller are atheists, but not pseudo pop atheists, they don't exactly hold back on Buddhism).
Dalai is a senile p.o.s.
So maybe him being a Marxist shouldn't have been such a surprise to me...
Before the commies (who were and are pretty brutal), the Dalai Lamas didn't exactly practice what they preached...
Such as practicing brutal slavery, with eye gouging....
This explains why our Minnesota legislature went koo koo for cocoa puffs when he visited here a few years ago.
They acted like a bunch of 7th grade girls meeting Justin Bieber.
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