Dalai Lama Tells Chinese Students: "I Am A Marxist"

USA Today reports:

So Tsering Namgyal, a journalist based in Minneapolis, was jolted by the Dalai Lama's talk to 150 Chinese students this month at the University of Minnesota. Writing at Religion Dispatches, he says:

Midway through the conversation, His Holiness, much to their surprise, told them "as far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist ... But not a Leninist," he clarified.

If that is what you consider yourself, Dalai Lama, then I and all other informed people should consider you at the very least an utter fool. Tweet