See, this is where the siiliness continues. Communism is responsible for the deaths of probably over 100 milllion people and here you have a "man of peace" declaring that he is a marxist, just not a leninist. Wow! Where does communism get the jedi powers to cloud the minds of men (or is that also The Shadow).
Here is the article documenting the silliness...
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-tyranny-of-the-dalai-lama/
from the article:
It’s one thing to promote cooperation and egalitarianism. It’s quite another to publicly endorse a specific ideology that espouses such goals but consistently delivers a dramatically different outcome. According to The Black Book of Communism, Marxist regimes over the 20th century systematically slaughtered between 85 and 100 million people. Millions more were terrorized, tortured, and enslaved. And these atrocities were not breaches of practical Marxist orthodoxy — they were critical elements of Marxist statecraft. Terror tactics and atrocities, The Black Book’s authors point out, are found in every regime claiming to be Marxist in origin...
And while the Dalai Lama extols the supposed moral ethics of Marxism, he completely ignores its absence of a system of constraints. As Joshua Muravchik points out in Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, Marxism lacks an internal code of conduct to limit what its adherents may do in pursuit of its Utopian objectives. Welcome to Hell.
The Dalai Lama seems oblivious to other Marxist realities as well. He says he learned of the wonders of Communism through meetings with Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Communist Party of China.
Mao flattered the Dalai Lama, telling him his mind was very sharp and logical. The Dalai Lama greatly admired Mao. That is until the chairman compared religion to “a poison.” Unforgivable. More unforgivable, it seems, than Mao’s systematic butchering of at least 50 million Chinese.
Here is the article documenting the silliness...
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-tyranny-of-the-dalai-lama/
from the article:
It’s one thing to promote cooperation and egalitarianism. It’s quite another to publicly endorse a specific ideology that espouses such goals but consistently delivers a dramatically different outcome. According to The Black Book of Communism, Marxist regimes over the 20th century systematically slaughtered between 85 and 100 million people. Millions more were terrorized, tortured, and enslaved. And these atrocities were not breaches of practical Marxist orthodoxy — they were critical elements of Marxist statecraft. Terror tactics and atrocities, The Black Book’s authors point out, are found in every regime claiming to be Marxist in origin...
And while the Dalai Lama extols the supposed moral ethics of Marxism, he completely ignores its absence of a system of constraints. As Joshua Muravchik points out in Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, Marxism lacks an internal code of conduct to limit what its adherents may do in pursuit of its Utopian objectives. Welcome to Hell.
The Dalai Lama seems oblivious to other Marxist realities as well. He says he learned of the wonders of Communism through meetings with Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Communist Party of China.
Mao flattered the Dalai Lama, telling him his mind was very sharp and logical. The Dalai Lama greatly admired Mao. That is until the chairman compared religion to “a poison.” Unforgivable. More unforgivable, it seems, than Mao’s systematic butchering of at least 50 million Chinese.