How Did You Become Interested in Marxism and Buddhism?

When I was a young academic I read an awful lot of marks. And I became convinced that marks had very deep insights into a number of things. In 2014 I published a book called One which was sort of a metaphysics book but there were a couple of chapters on Buddhist metaphysics and ethics. Right at the end of the book I raised the question of how Buddhist ethics applies to issues in political philosophy, not something that's theorized heavily in Buddhist philosophy. It was clear to me that Buddhist ethics grounds a very damning critique of capitalism.