[Buddha-l] Bourgeois Buddhism

[Richard Hayes]

On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:42 AM, "Gad Horowitz" <horowitz at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Friedrich Engels wasa bourgeois communist without whose financial support 
> Karl M. would not have got very far.
> Engels belonged to posh clubs and owned racehorses.
> Marx was not a moralist.

I'm inclined to see Marx as the greatest kind of moralist. He was, I think, not blind to his own position among the bourgeois socialists. He was condemning himself as inadequate to the task he saw as necessary. Self-condemnation is perhaps the only genuinely worthwhile use of the human mind. 

Richard Hayes