Dalai Lama Admits: "I'm a Marxist"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, May 21, 2010, 5:00 AM
No wonder the American left loves him.
The Dalai Lama admits to being a Marxist.
He should have told Obama. Maybe he wouldn’t have been forced to leave the White House through the trash door following their meeting in February.
AFP reported:
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.
Those “moral ethics” of Marxism have only killed around 94 million people and impoverished millions.
It’s moral, if you have no understanding of history.
UPDATE: Babalu wrote a song for the occasion, “Hello Dalai!”
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
Red Dwarf commented:
Someone should let him know that ethics and morality are something most of us develop as we grow up and have nothing to do with capitalism. Look at all the ethics Lenin/Stalin applied to the Soviet people.
PCM commented:
Either he’s just saying this in order to pander to China, or he has betrayed the long-suffering Tibetan people who’ve endured so much at the hands of the PRC. Whatever the case, shame on him!
Neoavatara commented:
Maybe someone should inform him that the ‘morality’ of marxism is part of the reason Tibet as a nation no longer exists.
Logus commented:
The irony of it all of course is that communism and marxism are from the same root. But communists eat their own after all. It’s inevitable to the ideology.
Shouldn’t matter to the Lama anyway considering how nihilistic Buddhism is at its core.
The Lama is a pud, looking for some face time and sympathy to sell more guru books.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
“(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits,” the Dalai Lama, 74, said.”
Obviously, the DL understands neither. Marxism has enslaved millions, capitalism has spawned the freest societies in the history of mankind. If you love tyranny, you love Marxism. If you love Liberty, you must despise it.
Funny how many of my over-educated, lazy, upper middle class friends from college refer to him as “His Holiness”! Eat a steak and get your kids baptized you brainless wastes of skin!
Opus #6 commented:
He doesn’t see the connection between marxism and communism and the attack on Tibet? He doesn’t see the connection between capitalism and prosperity and improved living standards? Doesn’t he want religious freedom?
I don’t get it.
olm commented:
Maybe I haven’t had enough coffee, but this makes absolutely no sense to me.
Militant Conservative commented:
Simpleton, I read his book, pure drivel.
He does not even think there is evil in the world.
A child knows better than this holy man.
Dennis commented:
So, how many murders of his own people has the Dalai Lama just blessed? He’s no less a murdering thug than the Chicom who invaded his country.
[SHRUG] Maybe they’ll civilize the place.
Mal commented:
Apparently spending decades jet setting around the world with the beautiful people has warped this guy’s mind.
myohmy commented:
Dalai Lama is delusional. He contradict his own statement.
davsun commented:
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse-Tung
Capitalism means that man is “a sovereign individual who owns his person, his mind, his life, his work and its products.” A.Rand
“The moral justification of capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man’s nature, that it protects man’s survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice.” A Rand
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
ahem commented:
I no longer have any respect for him. Goodbye Dolly.
Patman commented:
Rats!
All I see when I look at the White House anymore is RATS!
rumcrook commented:
the most important thing to remember about the Dalai Lama is that he was born into this role, meaning he was chosen, picked, kind of like an easter egg hunt from the peasantry. this guy has the IQ of a turnip.
he’s no more special or holy or inteligent than the queen of england another person born into thier position.
being the Dalai Lama isnt like being the pope where there is competition and a chance for the best and brightest leader to rise to the top,
most everyone seems to forget this critical info when evaluating what this walking eggplant has to say.
kate commented:
There’s a promo commercial on the USA channel (in an NBC division). All the stars on those shows get up and say something profound. One woman, Brit-Indian, from Royal Pains, says “I believe in all paths to God.”
I’m here to say I don’t believe in this all paths to God nonsense.
flyoverland commented:
This guy should go back to begging for spare change at the airport.
JKB commented:
Yes, but without capitalism there is nothing for the marxist to distribute. A harsh reality the president of Brazil discovered.
Jack commented:
Then what’s his beef with China. How’s that non-violence working out for Tibet?
KC commented:
Hypocrite!
Britny commented:
He ADMITS it! Wow! I cant believe he ADMITTED it.
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Steve commented:
So, let me see…
The Dalai Lama is a Marxist, but hates Chinese communism, even though it’s Marxist thought that undergirds Chinese communism.
And he hates capitalism, even though he admits that capitalism is starting to break the stranglehold that communism has on China.
But he doesn’t hate communism too much, because he’s a Marxist, right?
Whatever respect that I had for that man just flew out the window.
Jay commented:
Of course the DL believes in marxism. Any so called faith that doesnt believe in a supreme God will believe in marxism because then the playing field isnt fair and if there’s “no supreme God that runs the world and has a plan for each person” then “we” meaning the “marxists” have to level the playing field.
Just_Saying commented:
Tiger Woods, capitalist that he is, will find it even harder to return to his Buddism, given the Dali’s words.
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pst314 commented:
“(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits”
So he is entirely ignorant of the philosophical history of capitalism? Never read Adam Smith, Edmund Burke or anyone else?
Clearly an ignoramus. And to remain so ignorant at his age requires a certain willful stupidity and/or perversity. Clearly not qualified to dispense moral “wisdom”.
Jerry C commented:
“to give a series of paid public lectures”
Yet, the Dalai Lama says he’s a Marxist. Priceless!
Kevin P commented:
Dalai Lama = Useful Idiot
Kathy from Kansas commented:
Wow. Another bubble busted. I used to so admire this man.
Well, no, truth be told, that bubble busted a few years ago when he said that abortion might be morally justifiable if prenatal testing showed that the child might be grossly defective.
I’m telling you, everyone, it really is true what I’ve been saying for years: Abortion is the touchstone issue, that is, the standard by which you can tell if a person is solid or not. If a person can’t get it right on whether every innocent child, no matter the circumstances, has the inalienable right to NOT be killed by his/her own mother, there is something essentially wrong in their moral/mental wiring, and they are going to get a whole bunch of other things wrong, too.
Hence, the absurd spectacle of the leader of a country that has seen 1/3 of its population killed by a Communist regime, saying he is a Marxist. Insane, no? But no more insane than the idea that an innocent, completely defenseless baby should be murdered by his/her own mother.
ProLifer commented:
I really care what a Buddhist thinks.
Joanne commented:
I’ve always thought the Dalai Lama was a quack. I don’t put any man on a pedestal. If the angels are servants of God Almighty and His Son, Jesus Christ, then this Dalai Lama doesn’t even rank on the level of a servant of the Lord.
Kevin P commented:
Kathy from Kansas #30 – BRAVO!
Kevin P commented:
Kathy from Kansas #30 – also explains why the person arguing that a child who survives abortion should not be given medical treatment is the most callous and arrogant occupier of the White House has ever seen.
apodoca commented:
Meantime, he lives free, fat, and happy in capitalistic countries the overriding moral ethic of which is freedom. What an idiot!
Chip Bennett commented:
What, pray tell, are the “moral ethics” of Marxism, anyway?
Radegunda commented:
The left has always loved the Dalai Lama because he kept chanting “peace, peace” while making no effort to stop a brutal Marxist dictatorship from crushing his country. The left loves him because he thinks self-defense is a sin.
Intelligent people have never give two cents for what the Dalai Lama says.
Ayres commented:
Add another name to the list of people who just don’t understand that freedom is the engine of prosperity. I’m very disappointed in the Dali Lama, you would think if anyone understood the pitfalls of Marxism, it would be him!!
bitterclinger commented:
Dalai = Doofus
Radegunda commented:
The morality of “capitalism” –i.e. the free market–is that people are enabled to take care of their own needs as a result of freely doing something that meets the needs of others. If you don’t meet other people’s needs or wants, you don’t get rewarded. That’s highly ethical.
Marxism, OTOH, is based on coercion. It assumes that people will not act fairly unless forced to do so—but rather bizarrely it assumes that people who get power in the government will magically become super-ethical and altruistic.
Leftists fail to understand how irrational it is to believe that selfishness and greed exist only within businesses that produce goods and services—and not in a (leftist) government that produces nothing but power over others.
No Man commented:
Maybe this filthy pagan will “get it” about 15 reincarnations hence. next one he’s coming back as a flea.
John Stuart Mill. On Liberty, “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”
No Man commented:
Militant Conservative #8:
The DL and I have not met, yet.
Bobbi commented:
Not too surprising. You see, buddhists are atheists. However, obviously, Buddhism does not believe in a “classless society.” Otherwise, how could the Dalai Lama have been chosen as the next incarnation.
I’m quite shocked, however, that a spiritual leader would stoop to politicizing himself.
Andreas K. commented:
I used to have high respect for this guy, until the started to claim things like this: “My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship.” (taken from his Twitter.)
He apparently believes that islam goes right there with Buddhism and Christianity.
“Inferior classes and races must be wiped out.” Taken from Marx himself.
Without Marx, no Hitler, no Stalin, no Lenin, no Che, no Pol Pot, no Mao.
Though, you have to consider that the DL is dancing on very thin ice. The Chinese could take him down at once should he fall out of line too much.
Andreas K. commented:
Ah Bobbi… Buddhism is a lot more complex than that. I suggest that every friggin’ new ager or other gaijin who never actually studied Buddhism should, please, STFU.
Andreas K. commented:
And remember, 2001 the DL actually said that it is reasonable to shoot back with your gun if somebody shoots at you and your family.
So he wasn’t always a moonbat.
And yeah, I’m an atheist leaning towards Buddhism, because blind dogma, as used by the monotheists, doesn’t give me any answers.
Buddha once said to his students:
Kalama Sutra
“Don’t let yourself be guided by lore and hearsy, but also not by religious text and the idea ‘we honor our teacher.’
If you know, from your own experience, that certain things are not good for you, drop them. If you know, from your own experience, that certain things are good for you, keep them.”
(An Nikaya III-66).
What a concept. Go out and find out yourself instead of some nut doing that job for you with his blind dogma.
Dogma always leads to stagnation. Why you think people have been leaving the catholic church in Germany and Austria in the thousands for years?
henderson commented:
You knuckleheads need to get it through your head that Marxism is not the same as Communism.
Evil Otto commented:
“You knuckleheads need to get it through your head that Marxism is not the same as Communism.”
Spare me, twit.
Communism is the result of the application of Marxist ideas in the real world. When Marxism meets reality, Marxism breaks. Every time.
No Man commented:
No man received a sermon from the train station muhammedan newspaper seller man this AM.
He thinks No Man is a liberal.
The muzzy paper seller was upping to date No Man on how the Holy Book (wink wink)) says the people who worship idols and animals (Hindoos wink wink) will meet (wink wink – courtesy of some jihadi no doubt) the almighty and the almighty will tell them to pray to, say, a snake and the snake won’t hear, of course. And, because the hindoo refused to listen to the Almighty’s messenger (wink wink), he will go to . . .
All the while no man was thinking Hindoos don’t fly airplanes into tall buildings.
PS: No Man’s co-workers used to buy coffee from Najibullah Zazi before that muzzy coffee seller he was caught trying to blow us up.
wanumba commented:
The Hindu Brahmin caste has this same problem. Capitalism to their thinking is “commerce” or “merchant” a lower CASTE than the Brahmins (intellectuals). So, the Brahmins, have traditionally favored socialism/communism, which is what dragged India down for so long after Independence.
Wolfi commented:
One of the most f… up things I’ve heard this week.
CAPITALISM is a political formation, correlated to Socialism, Communism, Feudalism etc. It isn’t supposed to have any ethics.
MARXISM is a philosophical ideology behind Socialism and Communism. It correlates to Hegelianism, Nitzscheanism, Thomism or any other ideological ism.
To oppose capitalism to marxism is like to oppose a rain forest to a polar bear. “I don’t like rain forests, I think polar bears are much fuzzier”.
To think that I used to respect the guy… Ew.
OneMonkeysUncle commented:
No wonder the Muslims want to wipe you cretins off the face of the Earth…
Not one of you even attempts to understand what His Holiness the Dalai Lama is actually talking about or the circumstances under which the conversation occurred. The rest of us just WISH your fairytale Rapture was true, so it would come take you away, leaving thinking people in PEACE.
Subadar Lal Kukhri commented:
OneMonkeysUncle: See #52 above.
They have less respect for hindoos and buddhists than Christians.
You wish you come back as monkey. You probably come back as pond scum.
Ya think?
Jeff commented:
So it turns out that he is a Marxist. Now you figure why he wants to live outside Communist China. That shoud be his happy home.
AuntieMadder commented:
henderson
May 21st, 2010 | 1:42 pm | #50
You knuckleheads need to get it through your head that Marxism is not the same as Communism.
From where the knuckleheaded, oppressed peasants sit, Marxism and Communism look exactly the same. Idiot.
RWinks commented:
The DL lives a life of luxury off the contributions of the ignorant. It’s hardly surprising such a drone would turn out to be bereft of knowledge and judgement. Anyone who believes the ideology responsible for the murders of 100 to 200 million innocents over the last century has any claim to morality or ethics is an obscenity.
Capitalism isn’t even an “ism”. It’s simply free people making transactions for their mutual benefit. It began when a hungry human realized he was better at flaking stone tools than catching rabbits and traded a knife for a couple of rabbits. It flourishes better with a system to register and protect property rights and some system to adjudicate disputes, but other than a respect for the property of others, requires no set belief system. It is the ONLY economic “system”. All others are systems of power which one way or another arbitrarily deprive the producers of their property which, inevitably, goes for the benefit of those with the power.
David commented:
Mr. Hoft, Catholic ethic has probably killed just as many people. You take the Dalai Lama’s words out of context to fit your agenda and I doubt that you understand what Marxism is. Adopting a moral superiority while twisting words is hypocritical and shameful.
Sam Berry commented:
It’s interesting to read comments on statements taken out of contex. No wonder the Right is so muddled. As a catholic I have hugh respect for the DL.
Wolfi commented:
David sez:
/Catholic ethic has probably killed just as many people./
Wrong. When Christians were in power population numbers were much, MUCH lower. in 2000 years Christianity hasn’t managed to kill THAT MANY ppl as Marxism did in just ONE CENTURY. The Marxist version of Socialism has killed more ppl than Hitler’s version of Socialism. Deal with it.
/You take the Dalai Lama’s words out of context to fit your agenda/
Are you accusing Mr. Hoft of working for CNN?
/I doubt that you understand what Marxism is./
I don’t fully understand what paraphrenia is, but I KNOW I don’t wanna have one.
/Adopting a moral superiority while twisting words is hypocritical and shameful./
What do you have against moral superiority? Oh, yeah, your side is all for intellectual superiority: “Me smaaart, you stooopid”. That, o.c., is neither hypocritical nor shameful. Sorry, David, mea culpa.
Wolfi commented:
Sam Berry sez:
/It’s interesting to read comments on statements taken out of contex./
OMG, so tell us finally what the CONTEXT is!
“I love Hitler, but only because he’s against Britain”… Oh, wait, that was Gandhi. Sorry.
What is DL’s context? Why does he love Marxism (aside from the moral superiority over capitalism, o.c.)?
/No wonder the Right is so muddled./
Aaaand loving it! (Sorry about that, chief.)
/As a catholic I have hugh respect for the DL./
And I as a carnivore have a “hugh” respect for Beethoven… If only I could find a f… logical correlation…
Paul commented:
I hardly think the DL lives in luxury. The money he earns helps support the government in exile, in India.
Tom commented:
I’m not a fan of Marxism, but you have to admit that capitalism has caused a lot of death. For instance, when we took over this great country of ours, we committed genocide on the native population.
billy sol commented:
i bet obama didn’t know that when he dissed him to show favor to the chicoms! i can see the beer and chat in the rose garden! barry, dali, and hu! no . . . . hu’s on third.
Bill commented:
You’ve taken the Dalai Lama’s words completely out of context. Try looking up what he actually said. Funny how so much hatred can be stirred up in such a “pious” group as this with words taken out of context. Do your homework before blathering hatred and religious ethnocentrism, it makes you look foolish.