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minus-squarePhoenicianpirate@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoIndia’s independence was more reliant on Gandhi’s radical cousins who were ready to bring down machine guns on the British than his non-violence. Especially after ww2.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoSimilarly, the Powers That Be only capitulated to MLK et al. because of the threat of folks like Malcolm X and Huey Newton as the alternative.
India’s independence was more reliant on Gandhi’s radical cousins who were ready to bring down machine guns on the British than his non-violence. Especially after ww2.
Similarly, the Powers That Be only capitulated to MLK et al. because of the threat of folks like Malcolm X and Huey Newton as the alternative.