Here is an article I found that some members may find enjoyable. It has Marx, Stalinism, fascism, no-self, Marcuse, revolution, Buddhism and more all within a few pages.
Here is a brief excerpt:
As was pointed out earlier, according to Buddhism, the cause for man's unfreedom is not just his economic bondage and the dependency relationships resulting from it, but every other kind of dependency relationship as well to which man commits himself through his social interactions, including all psychological concerns and attachments which he develops to objects and other human beings. For all these things constitute man's "self," which is thus nothing but the karmic product of social interactions. Until the nature of the "self" is recognized to be just that and nothing more, complete freedom is impossible. An individual is free when he no longer clings to his "self," or to the psychological and social identities, attachments, and loyalties which produced the idea of self. It follows that one who is completely immersed in society and social interactions is everything but free, and that freedom cannot be ultimately realized through social or political institutions of any kind. One who becomes absorbed in society and completely identified with it cannot but regard society as an end. But when society and its values and institutions become ends in themselves, the individual becomes a means to society, the perpetuation of which is the ultimate end.
The complete article at
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/ew27021.htm
Enjoy.
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