Gandhi & Mao Tse-tung on Violence

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the views of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Mao Tse-tung on the subject of whether violence should be used to defeat imperialism, achieve independence, and gain social justice. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical and political context in which the views of Mao and Gandhi emerged, and then to discuss how their arguments differ, as well as the arguments for and against the use of violence, with a view toward suggesting the position that appears to lend itself most strongly to political and historical cogency.
The public lives of Mao Tse-tung and Mohandas K. Gandhi were roughly contemporary as far as achievement of their respective goals of political revolution are concerned. The elder contemporary, Gandhi, was assassinated at the age of 80 in 1948, ..."

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