DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · edit-210 months agoI don't like how people free themselves with violence so I, a Westerner, am going to side with the decade long oppressormessage-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1225arrow-down1message-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-210 months agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefire86743@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·10 months agoGANDHI ACTUALLY FUCKING SAID THAT, WHAT THE FUCK!?!?"
minus-squareSpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up28·10 months agoIt wouldn’t be surprising since he’s the same guy that went on hunger strikes whenever his people would violently oppose the British.
minus-squarefire86743@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·10 months 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-up31·10 months agoThis is why libs revere Gandhi while villainizing Mao, Castro and Sankara.
minus-squareihaveibs@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up30·10 months agoBecoming a Marxist shows you that Gandhi was a villain that is propped up by the west in the name of non-violence
minus-squareRedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-210 months 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-squareJuryNullification [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-210 months 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”
minus-squaresilent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-210 months agowait until you hear about his exploitation of children cw: CSA lol
GANDHI ACTUALLY FUCKING SAID THAT, WHAT THE FUCK!?!?"
It wouldn’t be surprising since he’s the same guy that went on hunger strikes whenever his people would violently oppose the British.
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.
Becoming a Marxist shows you that Gandhi was a villain that is propped up by the west in the name of non-violence
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.
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”
wait until you hear about his exploitation of children cw: CSA lol