i recently learned about the buddhist concent of dependent origination, which states that all phenomena arise in dependence with other phenomena. this was surprisingly similar to my idea of dialectical materialism, and it got me thinking about how buddhism could be reconciled/combined with a marxist world view. has anybody here read books or articles on this topic?

obviously not everything buddhists believe (reincarnation is an obvious example) is going to jive with marxism but that doesn't mean it's worthless to try to analyze one in terms of the other

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If Terry Eagleton can write a book called Materialism and spend 1/3 of it reconciling Marxism with Catholicism a Buddhist version has to exist.

Here's an article: https://mronline.org/2023/07/24/the-revolutionary-spirit-of-the-buddha/ , which links to https://aeon.co/essays/how-marxism-and-buddhism-complement-each-other

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

yeah basically a buddhist version of that book is what i'm looking for. i just read that aeon article and it's fairly interesting, even though it does fall into the same tired trap of "marxism is totalitarian and bad" at the end

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