[Buddha-l] buddha-l Digest, Vol 47, Issue 38

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

gary.gach schreef:
> i've heard tell from a san francisco bay area buddhist who knew him that
> conze was a communist, joanne. was a surprise to me too.  next time i see
> that friend i'll inquire about what conze's reaction had been to mao and let
> you know, but reading one of the other texts from the russian online
> library, he severely condemns ussr so apparently he was openly vocal about
> stalin.
>
>   
Hold your horses, Gary, I'm not sure about Conze's affinity with Mao, but being a Marxist doesn't entail being a communist in the Russian sense, nor in the Chinese or Cuban sense. Lenin made his own kind of communism, a kind that Marx never intended. In fact Sout-American communism or socialism is quite another cup of tea as East-Asian communism. 

Erik

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