[Buddha-l] Was Mr. Pol Pot a Buddhist?

[Jo]

. In that, I guess they anticipated Slavoj Žižek's claim that Buddhism is the perfect ideology for sustaining uncritical capitalist consumerism. (I am not sure why Žižek makes that claim. I think he perceives Buddhism as advocating acceptance of whatever happens to be the case and as seeing all attempts to reform anything as a manifestation of hatred.)
Richard Hayes
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Hm-- Žižek obviously overlooked the role of Christianity, both in fostering capitalism as well as its current avatar, totalistic consumerism. See: Tawney, _Religion and the Rise of Capitalism_, and Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.   
Or, if he didn't, his main project (far as I've read his commentaries) is hyper-debunkmanship. 
Joanna
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