[Buddha-l] Marx and Buddhism

Richard P. Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Fri Sep 30 12:12:41 MDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 00:23 -0400, curt wrote:


> Capitalism 
> is completely incompatible with Buddhism, by the way, and the only sound 
> critique of Capitalism that there is is Marx's. So one way or the other, 
> Marx the atheist and Buddha the agnostic must be somehow reconciled. 

This reconciliation has already occurred in the writings of Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa. 
His writings reinforced my deeply held conviction that any Buddhist who
is not a communist (not to be confused with being a Communist) is really
just fooling around.

Richard




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