Democracy and Class Struggle says has we remember the slaughter of the 1914 - 1918 War and the courage of those that opposed it and the millions of lives sacrificed we should also remember the position of Ghandi and his collaboration with Imperialist War. and learn the lessons for today: Thanks to LLCO for this extract:
Gandhi and Imperialism :In the sense that loyalism is a political ideology justifying fealty to a colonialist power, Gandhi was a pro-British loyalist. Like Irish “nationalist” MP John Redmond in the same period, Gandhi abhorred violence when it was in the cause of his own country’s independence, but he actively promoted it when he campaigned for his countrymen to join the hated Brutish Army to fi...ght for the interests of Brutish finance capital in World War I. In Ireland, revolutionary national martyr Pádraig Pearse is today chastised by “liberals” and historical revisionists for having argued for a “blood sacrifice” in the cause of Irish nationhood. Yet it is conveniently forgotten that Irish Republicanism’s political opponents in 1916, the so-called “moderates” in the Irish Nationalist Party, demanded a far more massive and costly blood sacrifice when they campaigned for Irishmen to go off to die in their thousands for the Brutish Empire.
Similarly, Gandhi is today thought of as an apostle of non-violence, but he was quite happy to act as a recruiting sergeant for one of the deadliest and mightiest killing machines in the world in 1915, when he toured the country seeking “20 recruits from every village.” Hypocrisy? No.
Merely the product of one politician’s enduring loyalty to capitalist interests. As Gandhi said:
“I discovered the British Empire had certain ideals with which I have fallen in love.”
But the core ideal of the Brutish Empire in Gandhi’s day and our own is popular submission to murderous militarism in the service of the super-exploitation of the downtrodden working masses.
Who can love such “ideals” but an enemy of humanity?
Source : http://llco.org/
Similarly, Gandhi is today thought of as an apostle of non-violence, but he was quite happy to act as a recruiting sergeant for one of the deadliest and mightiest killing machines in the world in 1915, when he toured the country seeking “20 recruits from every village.” Hypocrisy? No.
Merely the product of one politician’s enduring loyalty to capitalist interests. As Gandhi said:
“I discovered the British Empire had certain ideals with which I have fallen in love.”
But the core ideal of the Brutish Empire in Gandhi’s day and our own is popular submission to murderous militarism in the service of the super-exploitation of the downtrodden working masses.
Who can love such “ideals” but an enemy of humanity?
Source : http://llco.org/
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