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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There is no freedom in Marxism. Only slavery.
They love him because he is Marxist. Ask him about his view on abortion and gay marriage.
ML/NJ
Fine. If the Dalai Lama is a Marxist, let him start paying real estate taxes on his monasteries around the world.
“The government that seems the most unwise,
Oft goodness to the people best supplies...” -Lao tzu
Mr. Lama needs to be more Zen.
“I’m a Maroon” says Dali LLama, but agrees capitalism.........
He has to be very careful with what he says to avoid unnecessary suffering in Tibet.
For those of us who live elsewhere in the world and have no relatives and friends held hostage by the Chicoms, we can say what we want about that smarmy bunch of parasites and whores.
I think you speak the truth. Tibetan Buddhist philosophy is well able to understand the inherent morality of capitalism and it's blessed creation of the middle class. And no Tibetan, including the Dalai Lama, could ever genuinely believe Marxism posesses a shred of morality after the fifty years of hypocrisy, torture and slaughter it's brought Tibet.
The Dalai Lama has lived a life trapped between global powers indifferent to the lives of the people he's tried to protect. His weapons are Dharma, egolessness, and wits. Thus his statement must be interpreted as it would be from any prisoner of the communists:
i was wondering why everyone in boulder worships him.
/s
Maybe his admitting he's a jerk will help convince some here.
Then why does he resist Beijing?
When did Marxism get morals?? Did I miss something?
Capitalism also doesn't require the slaughter of hundreds of millions who disagree with it's implementation, as has Marxizm. That fact should at least deserve an honorable mention in this fool's assessment.
Morals...Right Is he going to campaign for Obama? The “Marxist Moral Majority”? /sarc
Tibet has bad karma.
FYDL.
This has to be a false report. Obama treated him poorly.
Well then I dont feel so bad that he had to walk past the garbage on his way out the WH.
Karl Marx:
The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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