Monday, November 5, 2007
Extinction vs. Freedom
In Marx there is a quote talking about how the bourgeoisie "compels all nations, on pain of extincition, to adopt the bougeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst" (162). This is the exact opposite of what Gandhi was fighting for in India, he believed that India needed freedom, which "will come only when we free ourselves of the domination of Western education, Western culture, and Western way of living" (88). So I wonder, what would happen to India if it were to rid itself of the Western ideal of the bougeois? Would it become extinct as Marx foretells or would it acquire the true freedom that Gandhi proclaimed it would?
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