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Gandhi doesn't completely avoid going into detail about how exactly his philosophies will shake off British colonial rule, but I'd need more detail in this to really get behind them as a maxim.

I really, really wish I bought into how Gahdhi wants to change the world. But it's just too... eat-your-cake-and-have-it-too-y. I just don't get how he plans on changing the minds of people who make their livings off colonialism and exploitation - he doesn't seem to have any understanding of why people colonize and continue the system of colonization.

While I have a lot of admiration for Gandhi's dedication to his positions, I think I'm a bit at odds with him, because I hold the radical leftist belief that colonizers are actually really shitty people who poison any community that they're invited into. Like, the idea that people should change of their own volition is nice, but that's a long-term process, and people need protection in the short-term.