Shocking exactly zero people.
Via Salon:
At a lecture in Kolkata, India’s Presidency University earlier this week, the Dalai Lama spoke about the growing divide between rich and poor. “We must have a human approach. As far as socioeconomic theory, I am Marxist,” he said in a speech entitled “A Human Approach to World Peace.”
“In capitalist countries, there is an increasing gap between the rich and the poor. In Marxism, there is emphasis on equal distribution,” he said. “Many Marxist leaders are now capitalists in their thinking.”