

“In his tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru, a few months after Nehru passed away, political scientist Rajni Kothari argued that Nehru’s greatest contribution to nation-building was ‘not to have started a revolution but to have given rise to a consensus’. He called it ‘the Congress system’. The Congress, he said, was a ‘party of consensus’—an umbrella party containing within itself a wide range of interests and opinions from across the Indian subcontinent.”
― 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History
― 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History
“the state is something purely mechanical — and there is no [spiritual] idea of a machine. Only what is an object of freedom may be called ‘idea’. Therefore we must transcend the state! For every state must treat free men as cogs in a machine. And this is precisely what should not happen; hence the state must perish.”
― Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide
― Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide
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