Really? I thought Hindutva fascism was connected to anti-Semitism? Do you know anything about Gandhi's letters to Hitler, or is this just Pakistani propaganda?
On 6/27/2010 11:35 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:00:21 +0900 CeJ<jann...@gmail.com> writes: > >> http://www.twf.org/News/Y2001/0815-GandhiZionism.html >> >> excerpt: >> >> >> > >> Gandhi's response to Zionism and the Palestine question contains >> different layers of meaning, ranging from an ethical position to >> political realism. What is interesting is that Gandhi, who firmly >> believed in the inseparability of religion and politics, had been >> consistently and vehemently rejecting the cultural and religious >> nationalism of the Zionists. >> >> What follows then is that he was not for religion functioning as a >> political ideology; rather, he wanted religion to provide an >> ethical >> dimension to nation-State politics. Such a difference was vital as >> far >> as Gandhi was concerned. A uni-religious justification for claiming >> a >> nation-State, as in the case of Zionism, did not appeal to him in >> any >> substantial sense. >> > I suspect that Gandhi's position on that is by no means > not unrelated to his own advocacy of a secular India. > Although Gandhi was a very devout Hindu, he was > emphatic in support of India being a secular state > in which Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians etc. > would all have equal rights. Following independence, > this would put him on a collision course with the > right-wing Hindu nationalists who would eventually > assasinate him. I also suspect that Gandhi would > not have been too suprised that the BJP (direct > political descendents of the sort of Hindu nationalists > who assasinated him) have been strongly pro-Israel. > > > > Jim Farmelant > http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
