RE: [CrashList] what's wrong with Pat Bond's politics

[Mark Jones]

Tom wrote:
>
> Looking at the wrong end of it, Mark.
>
> What would have happened in India had Gandhi faced anyone other than Brit
> kapitalists?

It's true I come from the homeland of good manners--you can easily tell that
from my own politeness and kindliness. However, although I don't think that
Indian political circles or the masses generally, ever saw the Japanese as
being the helpful saviours which Julien seems to think they did, I don't think
the Brits were in reality any less genocidally racist than any other European
colonisers. The British Raj cultivated Gandhi and his aristocratic Indian
backers as the alternative to communism, which they were deathly afraid of.
Churchill in particular was quite hysterical about Russian communism, which he
saw as simply the lineal descendant of Russan aggrandisement on the North West
frontier and in the Caucasus, which the British had always been fighting.

Mark
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