A person of extremely high morals, who advocates benevolence, who opposes violence, and who has devoted his life to practicing what he preaches, we may call a saint. Gandhi was known as the Mahatma and Mandela was called the Light of Africa.
In this sense, they are all dazzling stars in the starry sky of human civilization, and just because most of us can't do what they do, such people are especially valuable.
For them, all sides do not hesitate to praise them, and the Textbooks of the West or the entire human civilization have their glorious images. Some people wrote them into songs, some people made them into film and television works, and some people wrote them into literary works. We are more or less influenced by this great spirit.
However, while being saints, they are not sinners. Because of Mandela, South Africa, which was once extremely prosperous, was devastated, and because of Gandhi, India, which was accustomed to a strict class, no longer had the power to break the class.
The anti-violent, uncooperative approach of opposing violence and advocating touching the enemy with love sounds great, but it is more like the whisper of a person who does not recognize reality. In India, an inherently class-defined country, the people at the bottom and middle did not have the courage to confront this unfair social system, and under Gandhi's influence even the last trace of resistance disappeared. It is not so much that Britain did not colonize India as a result of this whitewashed capitulationist movement, but rather that this was the inadequacy of Britain's own strength and the irresistible tide of the world. Because the British colonies in Africa and Northern Ireland were also lost. If this is not enough to explain Gandhi's absurdity, then Gandhi's following sentence is estimated to make this proposition clearer: "Let the Jews commit suicide en masse to persuade the Germans to stop killing, and let the Chinese rush up and be cut down by the Japanese and wait for the Japanese conscience to discover." “
Known as the Light of Africa, Mandela did everything in the shoes of the ultimate human concern, but it was a disaster for the south African people who followed him and led him. He is very similar to Gandhi's claims, advocating a peaceful way of seeking sovereignty without resistance to non-violence, which inevitably leads to the surrender of part of sovereignty. South Africa's mineral resources, bank resources are basically in the hands of multinational groups, Mandela made many promises to black brothers, but did not have the resources to fulfill. He also listened to the European Union to de-industrialize in order to protect the environment, and he even canceled South Africa's nuclear weapons program. Many of his actions have undoubtedly benefited the whole world, but it is the people of South Africa who are suffering. As a result of his actions, the South African economy almost collapsed. Of course, they gained some so-called freedom, but what they lost was the dignity of being born as a citizen.
What is not available on the battlefield can never be obtained at the negotiating table.
Fortunately, the leaders of our time did not compromise.