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Foreword
The Buddhist-Marxism Alliance (UK) has existed since the mid-1960s, and was originally supported by Professors and students from Oxford University. Following visits to the USSR and Communist China in the early 1960s by certain interested parties, the matter of the apparent ‘Marxist’ influence within Buddhist philosophy was being explored in both these progressive countries, although no one was sure ‘exactly’ what was being seen. Eventually, it transpired that what might have happened was that the work of Karl Marx might have been influenced by Buddhist philosophy! With the demise of the USSR in 1991, religion regained is ‘bourgeois’ manifestation within modern Russia and all association with Marxism forgotten. In Communist China, which pursues a Marxist-Leninist (Maoist) line, religion is viewed as a problem, although the similarities between Buddhist philosophy and Marxist ideology is recognised and explored to a certain degree, but with no systemic breakthrough of research. The BMA (UK) is pleased to announce that our key Chief Researcher - Dr Adrian Chan-Wyles – has finally solved this mystery and firmly progressed working class understanding and its Revolutionary vigour!
Sam King
Oxford Collective – BMA (UK)
Co-Ordinator
Next Section: 1). Preamble – The Case for the Buddha Influencing Marx
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Foreword
The Buddhist-Marxism Alliance (UK) has existed since the mid-1960s, and was originally supported by Professors and students from Oxford University. Following visits to the USSR and Communist China in the early 1960s by certain interested parties, the matter of the apparent ‘Marxist’ influence within Buddhist philosophy was being explored in both these progressive countries, although no one was sure ‘exactly’ what was being seen. Eventually, it transpired that what might have happened was that the work of Karl Marx might have been influenced by Buddhist philosophy! With the demise of the USSR in 1991, religion regained is ‘bourgeois’ manifestation within modern Russia and all association with Marxism forgotten. In Communist China, which pursues a Marxist-Leninist (Maoist) line, religion is viewed as a problem, although the similarities between Buddhist philosophy and Marxist ideology is recognised and explored to a certain degree, but with no systemic breakthrough of research. The BMA (UK) is pleased to announce that our key Chief Researcher - Dr Adrian Chan-Wyles – has finally solved this mystery and firmly progressed working class understanding and its Revolutionary vigour!
Sam King
Oxford Collective – BMA (UK)
Co-Ordinator
Next Section: 1). Preamble – The Case for the Buddha Influencing Marx
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