• @[email protected]
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    62 days ago

    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.

    • @grue
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      117 hours ago

      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.