Dalai Lama: ‘I’m a Marxist’

Posted on | May 21, 2010 | 32 Comments

Which might explain why he’s so popular in Hollywood:

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.

Tell that “moral ethics” stuff to the 100 million people who have died at the hands of Marxist governments in power. Let the Dalai Lama go to Pyongyang and try some of their “moral ethics.”

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32 Responses to “Dalai Lama: ‘I’m a Marxist’”

Joe
May 21st, 2010 @ 2:34 pm

Dali Dali Dali.

And people think Rand Paul talks too much.

It was Marxists who took over yoru country and sent you into exile. Marxism has ethics? Sure if you think Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao displayed good ethics.

Sorry, over that I will pick greedy unethical capitalists anyday.

Maybe you think declaring yourself a Marxist will get you a more open visit to the White House…then again it just might.
Joe
May 21st, 2010 @ 9:34 am

Dali Dali Dali.

And people think Rand Paul talks too much.

It was Marxists who took over yoru country and sent you into exile. Marxism has ethics? Sure if you think Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao displayed good ethics.

Sorry, over that I will pick greedy unethical capitalists anyday.

Maybe you think declaring yourself a Marxist will get you a more open visit to the White House…then again it just might.
KingShamus
May 21st, 2010 @ 2:40 pm

Yeah, looks like His Holiness has caught some sorta weird commie-dhimmitude disease.

Sad.
KingShamus
May 21st, 2010 @ 9:40 am

Yeah, looks like His Holiness has caught some sorta weird commie-dhimmitude disease.

Sad.
just a conservative girl
May 21st, 2010 @ 3:45 pm

I really would like someone to explain to me where the money comes from in Marxism.
just a conservative girl
May 21st, 2010 @ 10:45 am

I really would like someone to explain to me where the money comes from in Marxism.
Gerbil
May 21st, 2010 @ 4:40 pm

You know, once he started hanging with Gere, I never liked that guy.
Gerbil
May 21st, 2010 @ 11:40 am

You know, once he started hanging with Gere, I never liked that guy.
Quite Rightly
May 21st, 2010 @ 5:06 pm

More reinforcement for Progressive Socialists. So sad. More people will suffer. More people will die.

What about that “religion is poison” thing?

Oh, wait. That was Maoism.
Quite Rightly
May 21st, 2010 @ 12:06 pm

More reinforcement for Progressive Socialists. So sad. More people will suffer. More people will die.

What about that “religion is poison” thing?

Oh, wait. That was Maoism.
Roxeanne de Luca
May 21st, 2010 @ 5:37 pm

The theory of Marxism – “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” can only be justly and morally implemented in a capitalist, Christian system, in which the enforcement mechanism for the first clause is the motivation to better one’s life, and for the second, the dictates of one’s conscience and religion.

Otherwise, the enforcement mechanism is a gun, and the result is poverty, slavery, or both.
Roxeanne de Luca
May 21st, 2010 @ 12:37 pm

The theory of Marxism – “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” can only be justly and morally implemented in a capitalist, Christian system, in which the enforcement mechanism for the first clause is the motivation to better one’s life, and for the second, the dictates of one’s conscience and religion.

Otherwise, the enforcement mechanism is a gun, and the result is poverty, slavery, or both.
Joe
May 21st, 2010 @ 6:01 pm

Let’s face some facts here. Tibet sucked before the Communists showed up. Oh it is pretty and the culture is interesting, but Shangri-La it was not. It was a poor feudal society where the monks had most of the wealth. Now it a poor fedual colony of China, where the wealth is funneled off to party hack in Beijing.

I used to tolerate the Dalai Lama and thought he was wise enough not to interfere directly in western politics. He promoted peace and Tibetian style Buddhism–harmless. But now he shows he is just a hack, about the same as Bono but without any talent. Actually the Dalai Lama is about going on the talk circuit and getting tickets sold for his various speaking engagements. I bald Bill Clinton if you will.
Joe
May 21st, 2010 @ 1:01 pm

Let’s face some facts here. Tibet sucked before the Communists showed up. Oh it is pretty and the culture is interesting, but Shangri-La it was not. It was a poor feudal society where the monks had most of the wealth. Now it a poor fedual colony of China, where the wealth is funneled off to party hack in Beijing.

I used to tolerate the Dalai Lama and thought he was wise enough not to interfere directly in western politics. He promoted peace and Tibetian style Buddhism–harmless. But now he shows he is just a hack, about the same as Bono but without any talent. Actually the Dalai Lama is about going on the talk circuit and getting tickets sold for his various speaking engagements. I bald Bill Clinton if you will.
Joe
May 21st, 2010 @ 6:03 pm

Excuse me. The Dalai Lama is a bald Bill Clinton, who likes to wear saffron robes. Trippy.
Joe
May 21st, 2010 @ 1:03 pm

Excuse me. The Dalai Lama is a bald Bill Clinton, who likes to wear saffron robes. Trippy.
Live Free Or Die
May 21st, 2010 @ 7:31 pm

I guess the Dolly Llama is hoping to impress
O-bah-muhh enough to merit entering through the front door, and not exit through the service entrance.
Yeah, the Richard Gere following should have tipped us off.
Or maybe the Dolly Llama is just trying to get Sen Penn to convert.
Live Free Or Die
May 21st, 2010 @ 2:31 pm

I guess the Dolly Llama is hoping to impress
O-bah-muhh enough to merit entering through the front door, and not exit through the service entrance.
Yeah, the Richard Gere following should have tipped us off.
Or maybe the Dolly Llama is just trying to get Sen Penn to convert.
Joe
May 21st, 2010 @ 8:04 pm

Acutally what the old Dalai is doing is trying to kiss up to the Chinese overlords by kow towing to them. Of course he missed that train. The ChiCom heirs of Mao only pay lip service to Marx. They care about more tangible things like Taiwan and how this whole Tibetian thing plays with their longer goals.

Perhaps the Dalai should try giving the Chinese his secret blessing of total consciousness, or better yet getting in massive debt to them and turning over Tibetan sovereigntry claims that way.
Joe
May 21st, 2010 @ 3:04 pm

Acutally what the old Dalai is doing is trying to kiss up to the Chinese overlords by kow towing to them. Of course he missed that train. The ChiCom heirs of Mao only pay lip service to Marx. They care about more tangible things like Taiwan and how this whole Tibetian thing plays with their longer goals.

Perhaps the Dalai should try giving the Chinese his secret blessing of total consciousness, or better yet getting in massive debt to them and turning over Tibetan sovereigntry claims that way.
TAS
May 21st, 2010 @ 8:39 pm

A Tibetan Marxist? Isn’t that kind of like a Jewish Nazi?
TAS
May 21st, 2010 @ 3:39 pm

A Tibetan Marxist? Isn’t that kind of like a Jewish Nazi?
Noel
May 21st, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

I suddenly don’t feel so bad that Obama made him use the service exit, or as Ronnie and I call it, the Dustbin of History Exit.
Noel
May 21st, 2010 @ 3:50 pm

I suddenly don’t feel so bad that Obama made him use the service exit, or as Ronnie and I call it, the Dustbin of History Exit.
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RES
May 21st, 2010 @ 11:11 pm

Marxism does indeed have moral ethics. It keeps them in a lovely hand-carved, velvet-lined box and brings them out for public occasions. Capitalism is a misnomer, ceding terminology to the Marxists; the proper term is Free-Market Economics. FME eschews moral ethics as the stuff of religion and philosophy and restricts itself to the simple ethical principle of voluntary exchange — a principle notably absent from Marxism.

OTOH, grant that the Dalai has sung the praises of George W bush’s foreign policy.
RES
May 21st, 2010 @ 6:11 pm

Marxism does indeed have moral ethics. It keeps them in a lovely hand-carved, velvet-lined box and brings them out for public occasions. Capitalism is a misnomer, ceding terminology to the Marxists; the proper term is Free-Market Economics. FME eschews moral ethics as the stuff of religion and philosophy and restricts itself to the simple ethical principle of voluntary exchange — a principle notably absent from Marxism.

OTOH, grant that the Dalai has sung the praises of George W bush’s foreign policy.
nicholas
May 22nd, 2010 @ 3:09 am

Marxism is driven by moral ethics?

I suppose the Islamists have a certain moral ethics to them as well. Ditto the Hutus in their genocidal wars with the Tutsis, the Khmer Rouge, the Jacobins, and of course, the Nazis. Profitability was definitely secondary to these fine examples of moral ethics in practice.

Perhaps the moral certainty of the practitioner is not something for us to be putting our faith in.
nicholas
May 21st, 2010 @ 10:09 pm

Marxism is driven by moral ethics?

I suppose the Islamists have a certain moral ethics to them as well. Ditto the Hutus in their genocidal wars with the Tutsis, the Khmer Rouge, the Jacobins, and of course, the Nazis. Profitability was definitely secondary to these fine examples of moral ethics in practice.

Perhaps the moral certainty of the practitioner is not something for us to be putting our faith in.
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