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[edit] Anti Statism
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Gandhi was an anti statist in the sense that his vision of India meant India without an underlying government.[1] His idea was that true self rule in a country means that every person rules himself and that there is no state which enforces laws upon the people.[2][3] On occassions he described himself as a philosophical anarchist.[4] A free India for him meant existence of thousands of self sufficient small communities (an idea he probably got from Tolstoy) who rule themselves without hindering others. It did not mean merely transferring a British established administrative structure into Indian hands which he said was just making Hindustan into Englistan [5]. He wanted to dissolve the Congress Party after independence and establish a system of direct democracy in India,[6] having no faith in the British styled parliamentary system.[7].
- ^ Jesudasan, Ignatius. A Gandhian theology of liberation. Gujarat Sahitya Prakash: Ananda India, 1987, pp 236-237
- ^ Murthy, Srinivas.Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy Letters. Long Beach Publications: Long Beach, 1987, pp 13
- ^ Murthy, Srinivas.Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy Letters. Long Beach Publications: Long Beach, 1987, pp 189.
- ^ Articles on and by Gandhi, Retrieved on June 7, 2008.
- ^ Chapter VI Hind Swaraj by M.K. Gandhi
- ^ Bhattacharyya, Buddhadeva. Evolution of the political philosophy of Gandhi. Calcutta Book House: Calcutta, 1969, pp 479
- ^ Chapter VI Hind Swaraj by M.K. Gandhi
