Marx And Gandhi

Comparative study of Marxism and Gandhian economics.

The book unravels the dynamics of capitalist development, critically assesses the socialist experiment in charting out a alternative course of development, explains the contradictions in the post-Independence development process in India, and then proposes an alternative path to progress.

The book unravels the dynamics of capitalist development, critically assesses the socialist experiment in charting out a course of development different from capitalism, explains the contradictions in the post-Independence development process in India, evaluates other efforts outside the state towards ushering in 'development', and then proposes an alternative path to progress - an employment based ecologically sustainable model of decentralized development based on local resource endowment and heightened mass consciousness which will take the country out of the dependency paradigm. This book is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Excerpt from Mahatma Gandhi and Karl Marx: A Study of Selected Social Thinkers Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as 'Bapu' - the Father of Indian nation, was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, India. He was enjoying the boyhood days of his fourteenth year when Karl Marx, after having attained his climax, had breathed his last. Gandhi, as a boy, was unconcerned with the world affairs though he was brought up in an anti-British atmosphere. Obviously, there was little in his early life to show that he was destined to become one of the most magnetic personalities and most compelling leaders of our country's long history. Gandhi was married at 13 and at 19, when already a father, he went to London to study law. For three years he lived frugally in London on $20 a month and then returned to India as a qualified barrister and a member of Inner Temple. He was, later in 1922, debarred from the membership of the Inner Temple on account of receiving a sentence of six years' imprisonment by the Indian courts. At the age of 23, he went to South Africa in a law case and stayed there for twenty years, seeking to improve the status of his fellow Indians, who were discriminated against because of their dark skins. There he developed his philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience as a means towards political ends. He returned to India in 1914, gave away his property, and took to wearing a saintly dress of loin-cloth to symbolize his joining the repressed millions who could afford no more. He preached political and economic freedom from England and urged the wiping out of religious enmities among Hindus and Muslims. He launched a vigourous movement to attain political, economic, social and cultural freedom for India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

As a tribute to Javeed Alam and his exemplary life, some of his close friends and admirers have come together in this volume with reflections on the range of themes that he pursued in his work with such intelligence and relish for some four decades: the nature of capitalism and the various angles of a Marxist response to it, the nature of secularism and liberalism and the forms of modernity which they usher in, and Gandhi’s political ideas in the context of Indian society and India’s own unfolding modernity.