Dalai Lama: Marxist  (Via Hot Air) Who knew?  Still I am a
Marxist,” the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York,
where he arrived today with an entourage of robed monks and a
heavy security detail to give a series of paid public lectures.
“(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to
make profits,” the Dalai Lama, 74, said. However, he credited
China’s embrace of market economics for breaking communism’s
grip over the world’s most populous country and forcing the
ruling Communist Party to “represent all sorts of classes”.
“(Capitalism) brought a lot of positive to China. Millions of
people’s living standards improved,” he said.  Crom’s Hammer, I
think I’m going to sneeze*!  You know what, I can care less
about the Capitalism vs Communism aspect of this story. What I
would like to go into the fact that the Dalai Lama, a religious
leader of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, believes in
Marxism, in which ATHEISM IS A CORNERSTONE!!  How can you
believe in Marxism without being an Ath