'I'm a Marxist' says Dalai Lama, but agrees capitalism has helped China

AFP ^ | May 20, 2010

[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.

[Canedawg]

Sounds like he’s been drinking that po cha flavored koolaide.

[Oratam]

a synthesis between Buddhism and Marxism

I shudder when I read the word synthesis. It's how the utterly unacceptable is made palatable . . . in anticipation of the next synthesis.

[newfreep]

Anti-war movements, huge international aid efforts after Haiti's earthquake this year, and the election of Barack Obama as the first black president in a once deeply racist US are "clear signs of human beings being more mature", he said.

The Dolly needs to buy a clue - it's the blacks like MAO-bama and his white liberal devotees that are the racists. I guess truth doesn't matter to a marxist.

[NFHale]

“...Still I am a Marxist,” the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said ...

“Then still, Dalai Lama, you are a POS...” Hale replied to the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader. Just lost all sympathy for him and “the plight of his people”, etc., etc., etc.,

[Renderofveils]

"(Marxism has) moral ethics,

Marxism is more materialistic than Capitalism. Its very doctrines dictate that there is NO emotional or spiritual value to anything. The material worth is all that matters. That is why material worth is to be spread. You can't be happy unless things are given to you. The Dalai Lama needs to read more Dogen.

[ecomcon]

Because they have denied God and become fools.

[mrmeyer]

Yeah, they were so moral and humane in Cambodia. This guy needs to STFU.

[anniegetyourgun]

Don’t you just love Truth?

[ScottinVA]

Uh, Mr. Lama, Marxists exiled you and subjugated your country, you dumbsh*t!!!! It would follow that you’d, like, y’know.. HATE THEIR GUTS!?!

[OldNavyVet]

The fact that China is a communist slave state means that capitalism does not exist in China.

Any Rand writes that ...

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

[the invisib1e hand]

You come up with irrational bullshit like this.

Yeah but one has to wonder, if he's god (or even a minor deity), why doesn't he have his own socio-economic theories. Why does he need Marx?

[TomasUSMC]

For me, this is a .....Dali jumped the shark moment.

[TomasUSMC]

Stalin improved the living standards of Ukraine by starving 1/3 of the population.

Well said.

[caver]

My repsect for the Dolly Llama just went down the toilet.

[theDentist]

"I'm a Marxist" says Dalai Lama

"You're an idiot" responds theDentist. "If you are a Marxist, you'll return to the land of Marxism that you fled. If you don't return, then I say you're a damn liar too."

[trisham]

I take back what I said about him being forced to exit out the back door of the White House and past the piles of garbage.

[guitarplayer1953]

He's a Marxist yet he is charging for his lectures? SNAFU & FUBAR combined.

[fhayek]

Gunga galunga. Gunga gunga da gunga.

[TypeZoNegative]

Maybe he’s just a fan of Richard Marx....

[Lancey Howard]

'I'm a Marxist' says Dalai Lama

No, you're just another mindless scumbag, D-Man.