‘I am Marxist’ says Dalai Lama

[Pongi]

It's quite interesting, because I consider myself as a Buddhist, as religion and philosophy of life, but also communist, as political and social system and theory.

[Herr Abubu]

Marx was never anti-capitalist. Marx was as pro-capitalism as one could get.

[Dick]

Marx was never anti-capitalist. Marx was as pro-capitalism as one could get.

Indeed. Capitalism was the step to an official communist state in his manifesto. Probably why communism failed in Russia and elsewhere. They went from monarchism to communism without the capitalist wealth to maintain the state.

[Óttar]

Even though, today the Dalai Lama claims to be freedom loving and all that, the historical Dalai Lama position has always been autocratic.

I read a book about the history of the Dalai Lamas. The Dalai Lama was the Tibetans' supreme war-chief, and I was amazed at how many times in history the Tibetans absolutely PWNED the Chinese in battle. It is really too bad that modern China is going to wipe out Tibet.

[Herr Abubu]

Indeed. Capitalism was the step to an official communist state in his manifesto. Probably why communism failed in Russia and elsewhere. They went from monarchism to communism without the capitalist wealth to maintain the state.

Yup. People don't realize that his views were pretty much what we would call libertarian. You even just has to look at the people who inspired his economic work the most, Adam Smith and David Ricardo, to understand that Marx is just another bourgeois intellectual. But, more importantly, he usurped and subverted the socialist movement, which had many good elements. During the First International, someone mentioned having the workers lead the communist movement. Marx was fuming and hyperventilating about it. He was pacing around like a madman at the very thought of it, he went apeshit at the thought. Bakhunin accused Marx of being in the pockets of the Rothschilds, and for a very good reason. Marxism has, from Marx, been a capitalist ideology, because Capital is behind it. Capital financed the Bolsheviks. Trotsky was an enormously wealthy man, although he never held a job in his life and was the son of a railroad worker. The same is true for Marx, who somehow married into nobility and lived a materially comfortable life with servants and everything although he had no job.

[Shah-Jehan]

I read a book about the history of the Dalai Lamas. The Dalai Lama was the Tibetans' supreme war-chief, and I was amazed at how many times in history the Tibetans absolutely PWNED the Chinese in battle. It is really too bad that modern China is going to wipe out Tibet.

It's probably because of Tibet's location. Due to being a very mountainous region (the highest place in the world), they would always have an advantage against invading armies. The CCP actually has been detrimental to a lot of authentic Chinese culture as well, and has instead instilled communism as a tenet of being Chinese. But, Tibet as an autonomous region will stay culturally secure. Also, Tibet doesn't have as much natural resources, so there's no large scale forms of settlement like there has been in Xinjiang, besides some Hui from the north, even though minor has led to contentions among Tibetans. Also, Tibetan culture would de facto, survive in Southern Asia, with the Tibetan refugees in India/Nepal, as well as Tibetan-origin cultures such as Bhutan, Ladakh, Baltistan, parts of Nepal, Sikkim etc.

[Ziveth]

Oh, he is marxist? I didn't know that
Anyway he lives in China and it's a country much influenced by communism indeed