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Transcending Capitalism: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism

Revolutionary Left Radio

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What Can Buddhism Offer to Marxism?

Buddhist philosophers have been more concerned with individual well-being than social well-being. Buddhism offers an understanding of the contemporary state of the socioeconomic world which you just don't find in the Buddhist canon. Marxism has always been wanting an ethical basis so what you get in the later Marx once Marx and Engels discover historical materialist is the view that the way that people think is part of the superstructure depends on the forces and means of production.

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