Democracy - As Gandhi Thought
There was a suggestion by some that Gandhi was also "Anarchist" and he favored "anarchy" though sometimes. This motivated me to read Gandhi's view on democracy and anarchy or mobocracy. In Young India on 28-July-1920, Gandhi wrote and I quote, " Personally I do not mind Governmental fury as I find mob fury. The later is a sign of national distemper and therefore more difficult to deal with than the former which is confined to a small corporation. It is easier to oust a Government that has rendered itself unfit to govern than it is to cure unknown people in a mob of their madness." On 08-September-1920 he wrote, "Nothing is so easy as to train mobs, for the simple reason that they have no mind, no premeditation." On 27-May-1939 he wrote in Harizan, "A born democrat is a born disciplinarian. Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.... Let those who ar