Since I am starting on 02' Oct it suits to write a tribute to the Mahatma. And what could be greater than a critique of his writing.....
The traditional old implementations, the plough and the spinning wheel have made our wisdom and welfare. We must gradually return to the old simplicity. The railways, telegraphs, hospitals, lawyers, doctors - all have to go- you cannot build non violence on factory civilization, but you can build it on self contained villages.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I shall quote another great philospher :
An indian village contains in itself all the conditions of surplus production. These idyllic village communities had always been the solid foundation of oriental despotism, they restrained the human mind within the smallest human compass, making it the unresisting fool of superstition, enslaving it beneath traditional rules, depriving it of all grandeur and historical energies.
Karl Marx
The contrasting views from the two masters of social equality. I believe the gandhian view is relevant to a subjugated society where economic development is dependent on the external controllers while the marxian view is relevant to the society which is trying to develop into a full blown democracy.
Hope to have some interesting views.....
Shantanu
The traditional old implementations, the plough and the spinning wheel have made our wisdom and welfare. We must gradually return to the old simplicity. The railways, telegraphs, hospitals, lawyers, doctors - all have to go- you cannot build non violence on factory civilization, but you can build it on self contained villages.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I shall quote another great philospher :
An indian village contains in itself all the conditions of surplus production. These idyllic village communities had always been the solid foundation of oriental despotism, they restrained the human mind within the smallest human compass, making it the unresisting fool of superstition, enslaving it beneath traditional rules, depriving it of all grandeur and historical energies.
Karl Marx
The contrasting views from the two masters of social equality. I believe the gandhian view is relevant to a subjugated society where economic development is dependent on the external controllers while the marxian view is relevant to the society which is trying to develop into a full blown democracy.
Hope to have some interesting views.....
Shantanu
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