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Transcending Capitalism: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism

Revolutionary Left Radio

CHAPTER

Do You Have Any Thoughts About Socialism?

Top down attempts to challenge capitalism or overthrow it have failed certainly that seems to be the case where we are right now. I think whenever you get a top-down power structure you're heading for trouble until you change people and the way their minds work, he says. Maybe there's a lot that can be learned from Buddhism in this regard maybe if you had people who had managed to destroy ego through Buddhist practice maybe being in positions of power wouldn't corrupt but "that's a long way off" He adds: Marxism has not thought through very carefully either actually is Buddhism neither actually has science.

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