'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.

[the invisib1e hand]

no wonder he’s playing NYC.

[tet68]

Perhaps more meditation is in order... there are no morals
in Marxism.

[silverleaf]

Does he think this will get him invited to a family dinner in the WH?

Nothing like Buddhist with Marxist morals ....

[I still care]

So is it not a moral ethic to bring improved living standards to millions of people?

Of course, I don’t know, but he may just also be saying he is a marxist for political reasons.

[Candor7]

I wonder how the Tibetans like that Chinese Marxist hopey changey over there?

[nonliberal]

This guy is a fraud and has been since day 1.

[anniegetyourgun]

And he’s been a Marxist since day 1. Why do people fall for these yo-yo’s?

[mainsail that]

“So is it not a moral ethic to bring improved living standards to millions of people?”

But dontcha know China didn’t do Marxism right the first time. /s

[C19fan]

/src on/Ethics as shown by those Cambodian Buddhist Marxists in Cambodia./src off/

[Tax-chick]

It appears the poor gent has gone dotty.

[Mr. Jazzy]

FU Dali, and the Llama you rode in on!

Hahaha! I kill me!

[Free ThinkerNY]

The Dalai Lama is a communist -Mao and the Dalai Lama

For the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Marxism has formed his political framework since the 1950s.

The Dalai Lama’s infatuation with Mao can be seen in a remarkable poem he wrote while on his visit to China in 1954.

Right up until his flight from Tibet in 1959, the Dalai Lama was working closely with the Chinese.

Many Tibetans can remember that in the 1970s the Dalai Lama attempted to start a Tibetan Communist Party with the intention to spread communism amongst the Tibetans in exile.

http://www.westernshugdensociety.org/dalai-lama/dalai-lama-communist/

[Truthsearcher]

Finally it all makes sense.

I’ve always wondered why leftists in the West were so gung ho in their “Free Tibet” bumper stickers. They never seemed to be the least bit concerned about victims of Communist oppression anywhere else.

I had in the past just attributed to another case of blind mice finding an acorn.

But apparently it’s just another case of leftists always supporting the more ideologically Marxist one in the any dispute.

[silverleaf]

Stalin improved the living standards of Ukraine by starving 1/3 of the population. He improved the living standard of many ethnic groups by forcibly relocating them via closed boxcars to open fields and forests in Siberia to starve and freeze to death. He improved the living standards of the Russian people by criminalizing their religious faith. Read the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn for more details of how Stalin improved life in Russia.

Fortunately Stalin died shaking his fist at an unseen apparition above his bed. I'm sure the Dalai would agree, karma is a b$tch.

[darkangel82]

It appears so.

[muawiyah]

He knows that but the Chicoms hold his entire nation captive and have been known to just round a bunch of them up and kill them.

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.

[dasboot]

I really don't get this: all the ‘concerned’ are trying to liberate Tibet from Marxists / Maoists. The exiled dali is...a Marxist. Pot, kettle???

[Navy Patriot]

Hummmm, karma, he got the standard Marxist reward, exile or death.

[AndyPH]

FU Dali, and the Llama you rode in on!

Do you know how much A NEW COMPUTER COST THIS DAY ? Mine is covered in coffee. Beast line for a long time. thanks for the laugh.