[Buddha-l] buddha-l Digest, Vol 47, Issue 38

[jkirk]

Apologies for using the word "commie" so carelessly--it wasn't
meant as a political assertion, just lazy.
Joanna 
==============


gary.gach schreef:
> i've heard tell from a san francisco bay area buddhist who knew
him 
> that conze was a communist, joanne. was a surprise to me too.
next 
> time i see that friend i'll inquire about what conze's reaction
had 
> been to mao and let you know, but reading one of the other
texts from 
> the russian online library, he severely condemns ussr so
apparently he 
> was openly vocal about stalin.
>
>   
Hold your horses, Gary, I'm not sure about Conze's affinity with
Mao, but being a Marxist doesn't entail being a communist in the
Russian sense, nor in the Chinese or Cuban sense. Lenin made his
own kind of communism, a kind that Marx never intended. In fact
Sout-American communism or socialism is quite another cup of tea
as East-Asian communism. 

Erik

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