Marxism and Buddhism Adrian Kreutz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWBWGdVo9Kg https://aeon.co/essays/how-marxism-and-buddhism-complement-each-other Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
Dukka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWBWGdVo9Kg&t=170s
The consumerist mentality is not the remedy. Unfortunately, Buddhism in the form of watered-down app-based mindfulness practice and yoga in Lululemon Athletica spandex has become the newest balm for the stressed-out capitalist. The most famous Marxist academic of our time, Slavoj Žižek, once said that ‘the “Western Buddhist” meditative stance is arguably the most efficient way for us to fully participate in capitalist dynamics while retaining the appearance of mental sanity’. ..the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations.’ There is no central property of the self, only relations. According to Marx’s historical materialism, the social relations that determine the self are, as we know, determined by the ‘mode of production’.
Svabava: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWBWGdVo9Kg&t=623s
Emptiness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWBWGdVo9Kg&t=751s
The problem with Left-activists is that they see the evil as being exclusively caused by the socioeconomic system (this was Marx’s problem too), without understanding how these factors operate within us. ‘Social change requires inner change – becoming less selfish,’ says the Dalai Lama. The question is not who we are – we are malevolent creatures, as far as I can tell. The question is who we want to be.
Replacing Capitalism: Buddhism, Marxism, Anarchism Overview and Scope of the Problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Mvr2mivog
Jan 24, 2022 a look at Graham Priest's 2021 book: Capitalism, Its Nature and Its Replacement. some of the ways in which Buddhism and Marxism may be complimentary in their ethics, political philosophy, and their metaphysical views of persons. All those topics (and many more, including: compassion, education, ideology, economics, politics, metaphysics, personhood) will be covered in more detail in the coming streams.
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEYe38FwSeo
Part 3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqAaLHFcxo