Karmic Law and Mutual Aid: Insights from Buddhism and Anarchism

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Breht O'Shea

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4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

David from Anarchospirituality joins Breht to discuss Buddhism, Anarchism, Marxism, and more! After an introduction section, David gives a talk on Buddhism and Anarchism, and then he and Breht discuss the talk before launching into a wide-ranging discussion on anarchism v. marxism, Kropotkin, the Buddhist conception of Karma, individual and collective improvement and struggle, Darwinian evolution, differences between western and eastern approaches to spirituality, the question of revolutionary violence within Buddhism, and much more!

Learn more about Anarchospirituality and his work HERE

Check out Turn Leftist's interview HERE

Check out Breht's talk on Buddhism and Marxism HERE

Check out Red Menace's episode on Conquest of Bread HERE

Outro music: "LIFE" by Saba

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.
0:09.0	On today's episode I have the owner of the famous, I think, among the left at least,
0:14.6	account on Instagram called Anarcho Spirituality.
0:18.6	He's coming on to discuss not only Anarcho Spirituality, the meme page, we touch on it a little
0:24.1	bit in the intro, but mostly to give a talk on the intersections of Buddhism and Anarcho
0:29.9	Buddhism.
0:30.9	Interestingly, much like my talk on the intersections of Marxism and Buddhism, but we both did these
0:36.6	two projects completely separate and without knowledge of one another.
0:40.6	So I did it at the behest of people who invited me to ASU to give a speech specifically on
0:45.4	the topic of Buddhism and Marxism, and I think this was a master's thesis for him where
0:51.5	he constructed this talk in that context.
0:54.8	And then after hearing my discussion, after I put it out on Rev Left, on Marxism and
0:59.4	Buddhism, we found each other in the comments sections of Instagram, decided to link
1:04.3	up and do a collaboration, and he told me that he had this talk that was more or less
1:09.0	ready to go, and that he would like to give it on the show, and then we could have a
1:12.3	discussion about it.
1:13.3	So that's exactly what happens.
1:14.9	So in this episode we'll start with a little introduction, kind of set the table for
1:18.6	the discussion, introduce people to the guest, etc. and then we'll get into about 45
1:23.8	to 60 minutes of his talk.
1:26.3	So he'll just give the full speech, and then after that for about an hour and a half,
1:31.0	after the speech, we have a deep discussion of Buddhism, of karma, of secular Buddhism,
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