Re: [Marxism] In Solidarity with the People of Tibet

[PoliticNow@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 3/22/2008 12:03:03 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
marxism-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

What  
kind of social
system does Dalai Lama aim at? This is  the question.>


The Dalai Lama has said that he favors socialism  over capitalism and wants 
to abolish the office of the Dalai Lama in the  future.  I have heard prominent 
Tibet teachers say the next Buddha or fully  awakened human being will be an 
ordinary socialist. I once heard a Burmese  Buddhist monk once say that 
Buddhism is the only religion that uses religious  practice to leave religion 
behind--in other words to end the need to worship  anyone or anything. Buddhism 
is 
compatible with Marxism as Joel Kovel has  stated in his essay in the 
collection of essays Marxism in the Postmodern Age:  Confronting the New World 
Order. 
by Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, Carole  C. Biewener. The nationalism of 
Tibet should be honored by China--anyone who has  talked to Chinese citizens 
about Tibet knows the depth of ignorance about the  history and culture of 
Tibet. I spent two months in China in the 1980s and  saw many positive 
developments in China that were a legacy of Maoism and some  very negative 
things that 
were lingering as well including racism against  Tibetans on the one hand and 
denying that Tibetans had another culture at  all.   

Mark  Derderian
"We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud  and Marx 
and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated.  We need a 
moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned  now, can 
once again be made central." Iris  Murdoch




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