| While I don't agree with the parent comment, arguing about 'Father of X' is bound to be futile, but I disagree with you. Gandhi's techniques are generalizable to some extent. Here's a simplistic outline of his technique: 1. Pledge not to endorse or resort to violence no matter what. 2. Travel around, survey the problem: understand core factors which allow the injustice to continue, despite mass discontent. 3. Cripple those core factors by means of non-cooperation and/or civil disobedience still adhering to rule no. 1 In summary: Maintain moral higher ground to gain popular support and attack the institutional machinery. Behind the legend surrounding Gandhi people tend to forget that, unlike the man who stopped the tank in Tiannenmen, he was a statesman. By the time his movement gained momentum, even if he would have been assasinated, he had already infected a good segment of the population to the point of being overzealous with his program. >By the time Gandhi started his movement, the British had learnt the secret that had eluded everyone else: empires are actually more trouble than they're worth, how do we get out of here? This is wrong. For example Winston Churchill, 1931[1] and any of his speeches as late as 1945 he vehemently opposed the idea of an independent nation. It was Gandhi that made the empire economically unfeasible, and not until then were Churchill and others ignored. [1]http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-w... A Quote:
"I am against this surrender to Gandhi. I am against these conversations and agreements between Lord Irwin and Mr. Gandhi. Gandhi stands for the expulsion of Britain from India." |