{"id":3437,"date":"2010-05-22T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:43:57","slug":"the-dalai-lama-states-i-am-a-marxist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3437","title":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama states &#8220;I am a Marxist.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre. For a man who embraces non-violence?<\/p>\n<p>He&#39;s currently giving lectures at Radio City Music Hall in NYC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2013481575fdd970c-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dalai lama 14th Tenzin Gyatso\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2013481575fdd970c \" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2013481575fdd970c-120wi\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/breaking-news\/im-a-marxist-says-dalai-lama-but-agrees-capitalism-has-helped-china\/story-e6frfku0-1225869459169\">&#39;I&#39;m a Marxist&#39; says Dalai Lama, but agrees capitalism has helped China<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&quot;(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits,&quot; the Dalai Lama, 74, said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he credited China&#39;s embrace of market economics for breaking communism&#39;s grip over the world&#39;s most populous country and forcing the ruling Communist Party to &quot;represent all sorts of classes&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;(Capitalism) brought a lot of positive to China. Millions of people&#39;s living standards improved,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre. For a man who embraces non-violence? He&#39;s currently giving lectures at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. &#39;I&#39;m a Marxist&#39; says Dalai Lama, but agrees capitalism has helped China &quot;(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits,&quot; the Dalai Lama, 74, said. However, he credited China&#39;s embrace of market economics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9008,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions\/9008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}