Q1: BUDDHA AND KARL MARX (SEC-B)
A comparison between Karl Marx and Buddha may be regarded as a joke. There need be no surprise in this. Marx and Buddha are divided by 2381 years.
-Buddha in 563 BC, believed to be no more than the founder of a religion, which has no relation to politics or economics.
-Karl Marx in 1818 AD, supposed to be the architect of a new ideology-polity a new Economic system. The Buddha on the other hand is
The heading of this essay suggests either a comparison or a contrast between two such a lengthy span of time and occupied with different fields of thought is sure to sound odd. The Marxists may easily laugh at it and may ridicule the very idea of treating Marx and Buddha on the same level. Marx so modern and Buddha so ancient. The Marxists may say that the Buddha as compared to their master must be just primitive.
The purposes of this essay:
-What comparison can there be between two such persons?
-What could a Marxist learn from the Buddha?
-What can Buddha teach a Marxist?
The structure of this essay: Introduction
-chapter 1: the creed of the Buddha
- 2: the original creed of Karl Marx
- 3: what survives of the Marxian creed
- 4: comparison between buddha and karlmarx
- 5: the means
- 6: evaluation of means
- 7: whose means are more efficacious
- 8: withering away of the state
None-the-less a comparison between the two is a attractive and instructive Having read both and being interested in the ideology of both a comparison between them just forces itself on me. It is of course too much to expect that having been determined to scoff at the Buddha they will remain to pray. But this much can he said that they will realise that there is something in the Buddha's teachings which is worth their while to take note of.