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“Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship.”
—Murray Bookchin, Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
(1965)
“Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life will be limited, dull, and mechanical. If the individual is a unit on his own, with space and potentiality for separate action, then he may be more subject to accident or chance, but at least he can expand and express himself. He can develop—develop in the only real meaning of the world—develop in consciousness of strength, vitality, and joy.” Herbert Read, The Philosophy of Anarchism
The truth is that man has produced imbalances not only in nature but more fundamentally in his relations with his fellow man — in the very structure of his society.
To state this thought more precisely: the imbalances man has produced in the natural world are caused by the imbalances he has produced in the social world.
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They say all beings have the Buddha nature
and that means you folks right here
these persimmons too, these chestnuts we’ll share
Budding, blooming, becoming
Act as if all beings as your relatives, parents, children
because they are
get together and take back the land you work
what is unborn cannot be owned
but it can be shared
this dharma is without high nor low, rich nor poor, masters nor slaves.
inherited will, embodied, the incessant heartbeat:
freedom, freedom
ripening, struggling, being
they put you in a noose for your love, your doubt and your rage
for teaching the children, comforting the oppressed and suffering
and refusing to bow
to the powers of this world
falling, dissolving, decomposing
and so you drop your body once again plunged into the stream
tossed and tumbling
scattered and scarred
open, weary
smiling
another foolish dharma seed
something which Law
cannot name, cannot claim and cannot hang
Some thing which is No thing at all
going, gone, gone
what we always were
are
will be
boundless blue sky
in other words: love
&
because this love is selfless
because this love is change
because this love is pain
because this love is empty
it is foolish, it is free,
gone beyond
thus:
gone beyond beyond
another world is possible
because it is possible
It
will
be
…the fruit, the seed,
and the fool
always returning to
THIS
Let’s call the Marxist socioeconomic system that is grounded in Buddhist metaphysics Compassionate Marxism. The focus of Compassionate Marxism has to be on ahimsā – nonviolence. Only then can Marxism be immune to totalitarian and authoritarian abuse, and hence no longer prone to repeat its history. Whether Marx himself taught that revolution is necessarily violent, or if there is a possibility of a peaceful transformation, is a vexed question. During the 1844-49 period, Marx held that violent revolution is indeed necessary, given the stringent structure of the bourgeois system. But if it is the economic circumstances that necessitate a turn towards something communist, and not totalitarian, then nonviolent revolution might be possible given the right political interventions.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-marxism-and-buddhism-complement-each-other
Intelligent activity is distinguished from aimless activity by the fact that it involves selection of means—analysis—out of the variety of conditions that are present, and their arrangement-—synthesis—to reach an intended aim or purpose.
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