But Obama and Bill Gates are first and second :(

  • gammison [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    He's made a lot of statements on making a synthesis of Buddhism and Marxism. He says he's not a Leninist and the main reason he dislikes the USSR and China and other ML revolutions is that in their zeal to destroy the ruling class they lost their compassion. It's not the worst take.

    He's stated: 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. (...) 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.

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      4 years ago

      Kinda share his sentiment as a less totalitarian socialist but not his conclusion with the buddhist-marxism if that means he wants a non-secular state. Thx

      • gammison [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        He doesn't as far as I know, like he's made lots of comments promoting complete secular ethics for politics and regularly makes comments on the need for secular ethics in education. Like there's some quote where he says we need secular ethics because we face man made problems.