Nevermind that capitalism has helped millions of people, the Dalai Lama is still a marxist…
"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.
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"(Capitalism) brought a lot of positive to China. Millions of people’s living standards improved," he said.
Ah yes, theft is good, but freedom is bad. I’m don’t understand the Dalai Lama’s definition of ethics.
From the little I know of him, I don’t discount the Dalai Lama’s significant contributions to promote a peaceful society. Also, I could see how that how that Communism thing could really get you down (and make Marxism feel downright radically free). But there are few such modern day examples of the effects of freedom vs. the effects of a government-controlled society as can be found in China, and the Dalai Lama has seen those effects firsthand. Hard for me to understand him not the greatest potential for freedom when his religious freedom has been attacked in such stark ways.
Thanks for sharing this story.