DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · edit-22 years agoI don't like how people free themselves with violence so I, a Westerner, am going to side with the decade long oppressormessage-squaremessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up12file-text
arrow-up12message-squareI don't like how people free themselves with violence so I, a Westerner, am going to side with the decade long oppressorDankZedong @lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · edit-22 years agomessage-square36linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefire86743@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoThe Western media always says that he was a peaceful man and we should be like him. When I became a Marxist, I started to see his methods as ineffective but Jesus. Fucking. Christ. I never knew he was that bad.
minus-squareBoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoThis is why libs revere Gandhi while villainizing Mao, Castro and Sankara.
minus-squareRedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoReading about history was my road to Marxism. Reading the history of India’s decolonization and the use of violent opposition, in particular, was a major moment for me. When I first saw this quote, it really put into perspective why non-violence is held as the only option by the hegemon.
minus-squareihaveibs@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoBecoming a Marxist shows you that Gandhi was a villain that is propped up by the west in the name of non-violence
minus-squaresilent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 years agowait until you hear about his exploitation of children cw: CSA lol
minus-squareJuryNullification [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 years agoWeirdly, Gandhi supported violence when he volunteered Indian men to fight for the British military in Africa. Make your libs read How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which really should be called “Why Nonviolence Is Shit and Has Never Worked”
The Western media always says that he was a peaceful man and we should be like him. When I became a Marxist, I started to see his methods as ineffective but Jesus. Fucking. Christ. I never knew he was that bad.
This is why libs revere Gandhi while villainizing Mao, Castro and Sankara.
Reading about history was my road to Marxism.
Reading the history of India’s decolonization and the use of violent opposition, in particular, was a major moment for me.
When I first saw this quote, it really put into perspective why non-violence is held as the only option by the hegemon.
Becoming a Marxist shows you that Gandhi was a villain that is propped up by the west in the name of non-violence
wait until you hear about his exploitation of children cw: CSA lol
Weirdly, Gandhi supported violence when he volunteered Indian men to fight for the British military in Africa.
Make your libs read How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which really should be called “Why Nonviolence Is Shit and Has Never Worked”