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> I wonder how the USSR helped King and esp. Gandhi.
Julien raises a very interesting question about Indian history and the
impact
of the Russian revolution on the anticolonial struggle in the Indian
subcontinent.
What would have happened in India if there had been no Lenin, no Bolsheviks
and no October?
Mark
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Looking at the wrong end of it, Mark.
What would have happened in India had Gandhi faced anyone other than Brit
kapitalists?
Who else would have let "non-violence" deter them for even a New York
minute? Germans? Japanese? Soviets? 'Mericans?
The whole shakey house that tumbled with the "loss of Empire" was built of a
rather will-less kind of "fair play old chum" attitude, eh? Not even in the
same league as Pol Pot or your basic Yugoslav both having demonstrated the
capacity to turn a squad of machinguns on infants. Can we imagine today's
International Global Capitalist letting go of one iota of the Indian
colonial wealth as did HRH? Dow Chem and Monsanto certainly don't seem to
give up so easily, at present. And they own the police ....
Despite his anachronisms about who struggled with whom, (I agree with
Julien); I gotta go with Stan here, having carried an M-16 m'self.
However, as for slaughtering "followers", Stan, ... well that's really the
more salient point isn't it? There was/is no need for mass killing of the
"led". Just one small pistol for Gandhi's movement, and a JAR [rifle] for
King's. It'll be the same for anyone trying to lead Bond's bee swarm, as
well. There may be *some* merit in the Hydra approach, I imagine.
Tom
"You can get more with a smile and a gun than you can with just a ...
smile." --Jesse James
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