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"I'm a Marxist" says Dalai Lama
« on: May 20, 2010, 06:41:07 PM »
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/im-a-marxist-says-dalai-lama-but-agrees-capitalism-has-helped-china/story-e6frfku0-1225869459169

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.

The Dalai Lama, giving a series of lectures at the Radio City Music Hall in central Manhattan until Sunday, struck a strikingly optimistic note in general, saying that he believed the world is becoming a kinder, more unified place

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Re: "I'm a Marxist" says Dalai Lama
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2010, 06:41:22 PM »
Marxism has NO MORALS

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Re: "I'm a Marxist" says Dalai Lama
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2010, 06:58:44 PM »
Dear Lama,

It's Marxism that has kept your land from being free for over half a century, you clown.

For being someone who is supposedly so wise, you're about as dumb as a bag of hammers.
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