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He's made a lot of statements on making a synthesis of Buddhism and Marxism. He says he's not a Leninist and the main reason he dislikes the USSR and China and other ML revolutions is that in their zeal to destroy the ruling class they lost their compassion. It's not the worst take.
He's stated: Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while capitalism is concerned only with gain and profitability. (...) The failure of the regime in the former Soviet Union was, for me, not the failure of Marxism but the failure of totalitarianism. For this reason I still think of myself as half-Marxist, half-Buddhist.
Kinda share his sentiment as a less totalitarian socialist but not his conclusion with the buddhist-marxism if that means he wants a non-secular state. Thx
He doesn't as far as I know, like he's made lots of comments promoting complete secular ethics for politics and regularly makes comments on the need for secular ethics in education. Like there's some quote where he says we need secular ethics because we face man made problems.
CIA Tibetan Program
but yeah he claims to be a marxist or a socialist nowadays, I forgot which because I don't trust him
Did not know, thanks! Did you read the first paragraphs of "Criticism"?, he sounds pretty based and anti-CIA to me
He's made a lot of statements on making a synthesis of Buddhism and Marxism. He says he's not a Leninist and the main reason he dislikes the USSR and China and other ML revolutions is that in their zeal to destroy the ruling class they lost their compassion. It's not the worst take.
He's stated: Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while capitalism is concerned only with gain and profitability. (...) The failure of the regime in the former Soviet Union was, for me, not the failure of Marxism but the failure of totalitarianism. For this reason I still think of myself as half-Marxist, half-Buddhist.
Kinda share his sentiment as a less totalitarian socialist but not his conclusion with the buddhist-marxism if that means he wants a non-secular state. Thx
He doesn't as far as I know, like he's made lots of comments promoting complete secular ethics for politics and regularly makes comments on the need for secular ethics in education. Like there's some quote where he says we need secular ethics because we face man made problems.