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Mohandas Gandhi - Experiments in Civil Disobedience (Hardcover)
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Mohandas Gandhi - Experiments in Civil Disobedience (Hardcover)
Series: Revolutionary Lives
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Mohandas Gandhi, icon of Indian liberation, remains an inspiration
for anti-capitalists and peace activists globally. His campaigns
for national liberation based on non-violence and mass civil
disobedience were critical to defeating the power of the British
Empire. This biography examines his campaigns from South Africa to
India to evaluate the successes and failures of non-violent
resistance. Seventy years after his death, his legacy remains
contested: was he a saint, revolutionary, class conciliator, or
self-obsessed spiritual zealot? The contradictions of Gandhi's
politics are unpicked through an analysis of the social forces at
play in the mass movement around him. Entrusted to liberate the
oppressed of India, his key support base were industrialists,
landlords and the rich peasantry. Gandhi's moral imperatives often
clashed with these vested material interests, as well as with more
radical currents to his left. Today, our world is scarred by
permanent wars, racism and violence, environmental destruction and
economic crisis. Can non-violent resistance win against state and
corporate power? This book explores Gandhi's experiments in civil
disobedience to assess their relevance for struggles today.
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