Criticism is an important and central aspect of Buddhism. However, the Buddha taught that such a process should be ‘truthful’ if it is to be effective.
Tag: imperialism
Racism and Prejudice as False Consciousness
There is no such thing as inverse racism or anti-white racism, there is only Eurocentric racism and its historical application across the world.
China: The Racist Advert That Never Was
I expect nothing less from white racists (as they are everywhere), but black people should get their act together and unite with the Chinese people to fight ‘white’ racism, and not assist the same ‘white’ racism that they have suffered under as a people for centuries.
Revolutionary Buddhism Crushes All Political Illusions
A Buddhist – whether monastic or lay – is a true revolutionary committed to uprooting the basis of deluded society in the mind, body and environment. This pragmatic Buddhist approach parallels the Scientific Socialism of Marxist-Engelism and Marxist-Leninism – and Buddhists are advised to study these teachings in all their manifestations (including Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong) as an important step in transforming the modern world for the better.
White Privilege
White privilege should be acknowledged as existing and then thoroughly rejected as a legitimate manner to run society. White supremacy is a lie that does not help poor white people out of poverty. White people are poor because the bourgeoisie constantly ‘steal’ wealth from them. It is not black, brown, or yellow skinned people that impoverish white people – but the capitalist system within which they live.
The Rise of Western-inspired Buddho-Fascism
The Buddha may have been the first spiritual teacher to overtly base his teaching upon anti-racism. A true Buddhist harbours no hate in either mind