Express news service, January 19, 2008
Ahmedabad, India -- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama calls himself a
Marxist monk, because "Marxism is more ethical, unlike capitalism".
At a gathering at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), he
said: "I am a Marxist monk, a Buddhist Marxist. I belong to the Marxist
camp, because unlike capitalism, Marxism is more ethical. Marxism, as an
ideology, takes care of the welfare of its employees and believes in
distribution of wealth among the people of the state."
Delivering a lecture on Ethics and Business, the Tibetan leader-in-exile
said the global economy has created vast economic differences in every
country of the world. "In the absence of ethical handling of money, the
whole community suffer from a sense of insecurity. Exploitation of workers
is maximum in developing countries. There are very high degrees of
exploitation in India and China, similar to the exploitation during
industrialisation of Western countries a century ago," he said.
Ethics, the Dalai Lama said, could be categorised as theistic, non-theistic,
and secular, and need not be based on religious faith.
"In all the three cases, the definition of ethics remains the same. Both
theistic and non-theistic religions advocate love, forgiveness, tolerance
and compassion. Secular ethics, on the other hand, is based on the
realisation of the same ideas on the basis of common sense and individual
experience.
"Trust and openness should be the foundation of business ethics. Even
according to modern scientific research, warm heartedness is important for
the happiness, well-being and health of a person. Consequentially, it forms
a sounds base for a happy society," the Dalai Lama said.
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