Re: Violence and nonviolence


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Posted by John Suarez on September 27, 1997 at 00:38:48:

In Reply to: Violence and nonviolence posted by An SDAC girl on July 25, 1997 at 16:01:53:

I think that you and I come from very different traditions, but many around me say that Fidel Castro is such a monster that it is a moral imperative is to use violence against him. I believe his revolution is evil and violent. However, I disagree with t hem and with you, because I do not believe that violence is the answer. I believe that violence is the problem not the solution.

In the 20th Century there have been countless revolutions: Russia, China, Cambodia, North Korea, Chile (Pinochet), Spain (F ranco) and countless others based in violence they produced regimes that were violent. These regimes did not produce a better society. They produced tens of millions of dead, and great oppression. On the other hand Mahatma Gandhi wrestled away India fr om the British using non-violence, and sacrificed his own life to stop Hindu-Muslim violence after independence. 50 years after his death India (the largest democracy in the world) is the only revolution which has led to concrete improvements for its peo ple.

It's sad that we read so much in school about Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, etc. and so little about the most positive and briliant revolutionary of the 20th Century: Mahatma Gandhi.

His revolution was and is a revolution against violenc e and a revolution against the dehumanization of our brothers and sisters.


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