Sunday, October 07, 2012

Slips under its own weight...

...Grand Unification Theory
But can satyagraha defeat every adversary? Could it have worked in Nazi Germany or segregated South Africa? Nelson Mandela wrote that the ANC abandoned satyagraha in 1962-63 because the apartheid regime did not think Africans were human and, therefore, would kill without regret. Similar arguments have also been made about the Jews and Nazi Germany. Nonviolent civil disobedience was Gandhi’s greatest contribution to the world, but it showed the possibility of defeating an enemy, not its certainty or even high probability. It was a statement about what collective commitment and the human spirit can achieve, and has inspired many. But science had little to do with it. Science alone cannot bring about political or social transformation.

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