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Dialectics & Liberation: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism

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The Three Poisons in Buddhism

Marxism, dialectical materialism and ideas like no self must remain fringe and must be undermined. We are simply not taught to think this way, and for rather obvious reasons. On every level it seems that these three poisons which Buddhism identifies are taken to their structural and institutional extremes within capitalism. I hope thus far I have made it quite clear why this dialectical way of approaching and apprehending the world is not only correct, but a real threat to the status quo.

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