Timeline for How compatible are Buddhism and Communism?
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| Aug 23, 2017 at 10:47 | answer | added | user10515 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 10:16 | answer | added | Dhamma Dhatu | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 5:25 | answer | added | jomo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 3:10 | answer | added | user2512 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 0:25 | answer | added | tkp | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 17:53 | comment | added | MatthewMartin | Interesting. The two fields of thought do have similar interests in reification-- treating abstractions are more real than they really are. Its probably an open question if the rest of communism isn't just a new set of reifications (labor creates value-- there's two reifications, workers have rights, two more reifications, and so on. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 4:04 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | Elsewhere he says, "I would argue (and have argued) that anything that breaks through our delusions is a Buddhist practice", so, if you accept that then maybe that could be another link/argument: Capitalism is a delusion, Communism breaks through that delusion, therefore Communism is Buddhist .... | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 3:54 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | Having just read one or two paragraphs of Tom's, I suppose I politely try to summarize his view as a) Capitalism is a bad idea b) Buddhism is good at keeping you from getting fixed ideas ("reification") so (f I understood correctly) use that to avoid being re-infected with the "Capitalism is necessary" idea. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 3:18 | comment | added | MatthewMartin | No I don't think they do. I'm currently reading Tom Pepper, who is either communist or at least a sympathizer and (as far as I can tell) a secular Buddhist who started from Shin Buddhism. In his writings he likes to mix ideas from Communism and Buddhism. I keep feeling like it's trying to mix, dunno, Elvis and Buddhism. There isn't any obvious correlation, but who knows, there are many books I haven't read. I won't post an answer of my own unless sometime in the future I happen to come across the answer. I didn't post this rhetorically as a set up for a blog post. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 1:57 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | Do you think they have anything in common? Will you post an answer of your own? | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 1:56 | answer | added | ChrisW♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 3, 2014 at 16:57 | answer | added | R. Barzell | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 21:00 | answer | added | catpnosis | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 17:12 | answer | added | Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 14:46 | answer | added | back2dos | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 14:01 | answer | added | sangharsh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 13:16 | answer | added | zwiebel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 13:15 | answer | added | Sāmaṇera Jayantha | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 11:56 | history | asked | MatthewMartin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |