This is not anything new. In 1943 the British government instituted the suggestions of John Maynard Keyens in India to raise the prices for food so as to extract more revenue to use in the war against the Germany and Italy. Churchill was quoted as saying that the 2 million people in Bengal that were starving to death that it was not a co…
This is not anything new. In 1943 the British government instituted the suggestions of John Maynard Keyens in India to raise the prices for food so as to extract more revenue to use in the war against the Germany and Italy. Churchill was quoted as saying that the 2 million people in Bengal that were starving to death that it was not a concern so long as they were people like Gandi.
This echos the actions of English landowners in Ireland that continued to export meat and grains during the famine that resultedd from potato blight. The estimated 1 million Irish men, women, and children that died from starvation, and the 1 million that were forced to leave their country and their homes, was of no consequence to the British government and the overclass.
It is called capitalism and so it is considered "natural" and the survival of the fitest but it is really predation by those in power of the populations they dominate by force with their soldiers and their policemen.
The establishment (plutocrats, oligarches 1% whatever you want to call them) hold Ghandi up as the model to emulate, the same with their version of MLK (their version). Non violent protest is a tactic that they actually use, it is a pressure relief valve on a pressure cooker).Remember the Occupy Movement.?What did they achieve? Nothing. The city council of Seattle said, give them their head, so they gave them a street, set up cordons, kept the cops out, and the whole affair died an embarrassing death.
The real reason that the Brits left India was not, as Churchill alludes, Ghandi, but the spirit of Subras Chandra Bose and the millions of armed Indians that had rallied to the call of the veterans of the Indian National Army.
I am not passing judgement on, or against, nor holding them up as a model. But Subras Chandra Bose led a detachment of Indians in the Waffen SS, and the Indian National Army were Indians who had joined the Japanese to drive the Brits out of India.
They were not NAZI's or Japanese fascists, but Indian nationalist that wanted to be free of colonial rule, they were armed, they were experienced they were battle hardened and they knew how to organize and fight a guerilla campaign. They scared the bejusus out of the Brits, and are not about to legitimize such activity, so they lionize Ghandi, just like the racists have lionized MLK.
Protest, march, rant, rave, make speeches to crowds of millions, go ahead but don't start burning their property or interfering with commerce.
This is not anything new. In 1943 the British government instituted the suggestions of John Maynard Keyens in India to raise the prices for food so as to extract more revenue to use in the war against the Germany and Italy. Churchill was quoted as saying that the 2 million people in Bengal that were starving to death that it was not a concern so long as they were people like Gandi.
This echos the actions of English landowners in Ireland that continued to export meat and grains during the famine that resultedd from potato blight. The estimated 1 million Irish men, women, and children that died from starvation, and the 1 million that were forced to leave their country and their homes, was of no consequence to the British government and the overclass.
It is called capitalism and so it is considered "natural" and the survival of the fitest but it is really predation by those in power of the populations they dominate by force with their soldiers and their policemen.
The establishment (plutocrats, oligarches 1% whatever you want to call them) hold Ghandi up as the model to emulate, the same with their version of MLK (their version). Non violent protest is a tactic that they actually use, it is a pressure relief valve on a pressure cooker).Remember the Occupy Movement.?What did they achieve? Nothing. The city council of Seattle said, give them their head, so they gave them a street, set up cordons, kept the cops out, and the whole affair died an embarrassing death.
The real reason that the Brits left India was not, as Churchill alludes, Ghandi, but the spirit of Subras Chandra Bose and the millions of armed Indians that had rallied to the call of the veterans of the Indian National Army.
I am not passing judgement on, or against, nor holding them up as a model. But Subras Chandra Bose led a detachment of Indians in the Waffen SS, and the Indian National Army were Indians who had joined the Japanese to drive the Brits out of India.
They were not NAZI's or Japanese fascists, but Indian nationalist that wanted to be free of colonial rule, they were armed, they were experienced they were battle hardened and they knew how to organize and fight a guerilla campaign. They scared the bejusus out of the Brits, and are not about to legitimize such activity, so they lionize Ghandi, just like the racists have lionized MLK.
Protest, march, rant, rave, make speeches to crowds of millions, go ahead but don't start burning their property or interfering with commerce.