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With respect to the delicacy of the topic, I think you're reading something into Gandhi's advice to German Jews that simply wasn't there. The clear intent of "The Jews in Palestine" is anti-Zionist, not pacifist: "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French." http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-gandhi170903.htm He doesn't discourage violent resistance. As far as I know, that was never really his shtick: "I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence," etc., etc. Rather he encourages some kind of resistance, and of course suggests his own preferred form of it. And why not? Without the benefit of much expertise, I think history vindicates him: any mass refusal to acquiesce to the Holocaust, whether a simple refusal to board the cattle cars peaceably, or a broader armed struggle in the vein of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, would have at least slowed the genocide, if not necessarily brought it grinding to a halt. Besides, he wrote it in 1938, when the Holocaust hadn't even kicked off and few outside Germany saw it coming. (Neville Chamberlain had given his "Peace for our time" speech two months earlier.) But I don't think that's even necessary to defend Gandhi's perspective. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
