Dalai Lama har ju ofta använts i antikommunistisk propaganda. Om man läser hans egna uttalanden får man dock ett annat intryck. Alla gånger jag har sett honom diskutera marxismen har han uttalat sig positivt om den.
OK, jag är inte alls naiv. Ett Tibet med Dalai Lama som ledare skulle knappast bli "marxistiskt". Å andra sidan är det en ganska så teoretisk fråga eftersom vi med all säkerhet inte kommer att får se ett Tibet med Dalai Lama som ledare. Åtminstone inte den nuvarande Dalai Lama, mänskligt att döma...
I en intervju med Dalai Lama säger han bland annat nedanstående. Som sagt, jag är inte naiv, men på något sätt tycker jag att det är intressant att han ganska så så klart markerar sig mot de anti-marxister som ser honom sin en symbol för kampen mot "kommunism" och "marxism".
"Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while capitalism is concerned only with gain and profitability. Marxism is concerned with the distribution of wealth on an equal basis and the equitable utilization of the means of production. It is also concerned with the fate of the working classes--that is, the majority--as well as with the fate of those who are underprivileged and in need, and Marxism cares about the victims of minority-imposed exploitation. For those reasons the system appeals to me, and it seems fair….
As for the failure of the Marxist regimes, first of all I do not consider the former USSR, or China, or even Vietnam, to have been true Marxist regimes, for they were far more concerned with their narrow national interests than with the Workers' International; this is why there were conflicts, for example, between China and the USSR, or between China and Vietnam. If those three regimes had truly been based upon Marxist principles, those conflicts would never have occurred......
The failure of the regime in the former Soviet Union was, for me, not the failure of Marxism but the failure of totalitarianism. For this reason I still think of myself as half-Marxist, half-Buddhist."
/Länken till ovanstående citat fick jag först från artikeln "China, Tibet and the left"./
