Graham Priest

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Elucidations · Elucidations Episode 124: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist political philosophy · 21 Mar 2020 podcast

It doesn't give you a political structure to achieve that.

So there isn't really a blueprint

I mean this is one of the challenges I think for any Buddhist who wants to engage with political philosophy to kind of think through these issues.

And, you know, as we talked about earlier, there isn't a Buddhist canon on this to draw on really.

Yeah, look I

I think that's right.

Look, the word socialism has so many meanings.

Th it's almost a useless word, I think.

But certainly, you know, one of the things about a socialist society is that it runs for people and tries to minimise the suffering of people.

To that extent it it's Buddhism is sympathetic to that.

But you know, well, what passes socialism i is often a long way from that.

I mean, in the United States, you know, socialism of the Bernie Sanders kind is, you know, perhaps just to the left of Angela Merkel.

So it's not very far to the left on the political spectrum.

Certainly well, anarchism, okay.

Um again, how you understand an anarchist or syndicative state is not obvious.

Yeah.

But there there is an obvious problem with power structures.

And we see this in capitalist countries, we see this in the old Soviet Union.

Once a power structure is established, it might be political, it might be religious, whatever, what we see is that the power structure starts to function for its own benefit, not for the benefit of the people who are in power.

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