Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, revered as the "Father of the Nation of India", was born into a Hindu family in 1869, and at the age of 19, he risked being expelled from his caste status and went to England to study law.
Although Gandhi admired Western culture and Western values, due to his color and appearance of people of color, a series of discrimination and insults in South Africa, national self-esteem and the suffering of his compatriots, Gandhi began to deny the Western civilization he admired, he exercised his ability to engage in public work, became a leader in the anti-discrimination movement, and has since become known for his "non-violent cooperation" Gandhiism.
Gandhi and his wife in his youth
Gandhi's "non-violent cooperation" doctrine, based on the Hindu ideas of benevolence, vegetarianism, and non-killing, blended the spirit of benevolence in the Bible with the peaceful ideas of Tolstoy and others, advocating nonviolent resistance. The core theory of this doctrine holds that love is human nature, the principle of truth is the principle of love, as long as the nature of love is mobilized, the conscience of the aggressor can be mobilized, the aggressor can lay down the weapon of killing, and the ruler is willing to give the slaves human rights.
Although Gandhi's call won a great response in India, he had to publicly declare the suspension of the non-violent non-cooperation movement several times due to the bloody repression of the rebels by the British colonialists and the armed resistance of the Indian people.
India eventually succeeded in independence, although there was a Gandhi element in it, but more importantly, the cost of maintaining the rule of the distant South Asian subcontinent by the British, who was founded as a commercial state, was too high, and the British were not interested in land and India's inefficient labor tax, but paid more attention to the high-profit maritime trade, so they simply gave up the "loss-making business" of dominating India.
Gandhi, who felt good about himself, further peddled his "nonviolent co-operativeism" to Chinese and Jews, advocating spiritual confrontation with force.
The "demagoguery lawyer who graduated from London Law School" who Churchill described as "disguised as an Oriental ascetic" declared: "Non-violence does not mean surrendering and compromising to the will of the bad guys." Nonviolence means opposing the will of the autocrat with the whole heart of man. As long as the struggle is carried out under the guidance of this human law, even one person can rebel against the full power of the unjust empire. He believes that all practitioners who participate in nonviolent resistance can get joy from their hearts, experience beauty, and feel that they have become strong.
During World War II, Gandhi wrote an open letter exhorting Czechs, Poles, and Jews to resist the Nazis in a nonviolent manner, praising the surrendered French for "accepting the inevitable outcome and refusing to be accomplices in a stupid massacre."
In Churchill's public speech calling on the people to rise up against the Nazis, Gandhi exhorted: "You can invite Hitler and Mussolini to conquer your country at will, to conquer the country you call a vassal." You can also get the Germans to step onto your beautiful treasure island and occupy your countless palatial monuments. Let them occupy as they please, but you must not lose your mind."
He also wanted to persuade the Nazis to commit suicide en masse, so that the world could see Hitler's atrocities, so as to lead public opinion to condemn Hitler, make Hitler feel ashamed, and awaken Hitler's conscience.
Jewish children in concentration camps
This attitude of standing and talking without waist pain aroused the anger and condemnation of the Jews, and the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber wrote to question Gandhi, asking him if he knew of a place called a concentration camp. The German Nazis slaughtered the Jews here every day in all their slow and rapid methods of killing, and wanted to exterminate the Jewish nation, and these devils never gave a soft heart. And told him that spiritual power cannot be transformed into the power of truth. Gandhi's answer was that it would be more meaningful for the Jews to be killed by the Nazis anyway.
When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, Gandhi also actively issued a statement urging the Ethiopians to "let others slaughter", because Gandhi believed that the result of arbitrary slaughter was greater than the effect of resistance...
In 1940, Gandhi once again advocated a violent non-cooperation movement, demanding that the Indians should not be the servants of the British and not help the British fight, and Dai Jitao, who was then the head of the Examinations of the National Government, visited India at the invitation of the British government, and when meeting with Gandhi, introduced the situation of China's War of Resistance, but Gandhi made another surprising statement, demanding that China stop resisting Japan.
Nanjing Massacre Memorial
Gandhi offered a "recipe for peace": "In any case, China is not practicing non-violence. Its heroic resistance to Japan shows that China has never had a willingness to be non-violent. To say that it is merely self-defence is not a reason to speak from the principle of nonviolence. From the standpoint of the nonviolents, I must say that it is inappropriate for a China of 400 million people to deal with an enlightened Japan with a Chinese population, or to have to resist Japanese aggression in the same way as the Japanese. If Chinese had a belief in non-violence like mine, there would be no need for the latest means of destruction like the Japanese. Chinese can tell the Japanese, 'Come with your means of destruction, we will give you two hundred million people, but we will not give in to the remaining two hundred million people.' If Chinese did, the Japanese would become slaves to Chinese. ”
These absurd propositions are very much in line with the appetite of foreign rulers and invaders, and if Chinese really take this prescription and give up resistance to the Japanese Kou, there can be no second way out except for the subjugation of the country and the subjugation of the species.
The Indian puppet army among the Japanese invading forces
In fact, the political ideas of India's independence at that time were very diverse, and Subas Chandra Bose, who was also known as the hero of Indian independence with Gandhi, also brought 90,000 Indian puppet troops to the Japanese, trying to rely on the arms provided by the Japanese army and the support of the fascist camp to fight against the British army in India.
Bose (first from right) at the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Conference
After World War II, the nation-states of Southeast Asia became independent, and most of them succeeded through radical armed uprisings and an unbalanced international political environment, so Gandhiism is not a political proposition that has been tested by strict practice. It is even difficult to say whether he wanted to increase the bargaining chip for India's independence and increase the pressure on the British army in World War II.
Bows, who defected to the Nazis
What is more, the Japanese invaders who advocated militarism and Bushido came to occupy China armedly with the determination of "flying abroad," and they had accumulated nearly a hundred years of strength, and they wanted to seize the opportunity of this "once-in-a-millennium" landing in a vain attempt to achieve comprehensive rule and colonization in Chinese mainland.
In this case, Gandhi also tried to persuade Chinese to adopt "non-violent cooperation", which was completely to send Chinese as fish meat to the Japanese butcher's knife, and to ask Chinese to be slaves. Fortunately, the Chinese military and civilians were dismissive of Gandhi's absurd remarks, and in 1945, under the unyielding resistance of the Chinese, the Japanese-Kosovar war of aggression against China was completely bankrupt.
On Mahatma Gandhi's tombstone is inscribed in English saying that the seven things that destroyed mankind are:
1. Politics without principles;
2. Worship without sacrifice;
3. The science of no humanity;
4. Business without ethics;
5, there is no knowledge of right and wrong;
6, the joy of no conscience;
7. There is no richness of labor.
These seven sentences are very convincing and very reasonable. In the matter of sitting and talking about it, Gandhi is indeed a master, worthy of his training experience as a British lawyer, but also as these inscriptions say, he is a ridiculous theoretician who has no principles, no right and wrong, and lacks humanity, and the "non-violent cooperation" he advocates is to awaken the already missing compassion in the hearts of the invaders with the blood of the innocent, to impress the powerful, and to hope that the mercy and conscience of the powerful will be reborn to achieve peace.
In his later years Gandhi was with his niece and granddaughter
If human nature is really so simple, there can be no so many evils, if peace is really so easy to achieve, there will be no such a long history of human wars, and only by making the cost of aggression greater, the punishment for crimes increased, and the war stopped, can the cruelty and crimes of the greedy be stopped.