Comments on: A Revolution Done Right

By: gandhigiri

gandhigiri — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:21:29 +0000

Here in India, the sensible among us feel happy at the way a comic/sarcastic wholesome/family movie series has been made on the essence of tolerance and non-violence. How these two reform a thug into a good samaritan. The movie makes you laugh quite often too.
“Munnabhai MBBS” and “Lage Raho Munnabhai”.
Gandhiji (roughly “Gandhi Sir”) appears to this goon and reforms him. Watch the movies. You’ll love them. You’ll thank me too :-P
If you have the resources, dub or sub-title them.
If you have links to more resources, nominate them for awards.
Wonder why no leftists are actually using Gandhiji’s satyagraha philosophy of tolerant and dialogue-oriented approach. Political talks these days are fronts for personal loots or cartel deals. So, I’m not talking of that kind of dialogue. See, we’re human beings and human beings are supposed to have better instincts than animals who find physical violence the only way to settle disputes or differences of opinion.

By: etbe

etbe — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:40:18 +0000

Rob: Yes, you are free to quote extracts. I only object when people copy the entire text for commercial purposes (which includes Google Adsense).

craig: Good point, I had forgotten about that one when writing this post. But given the number of revolutions with really bad results, hoping for a Cuban result seems unreasonably optimistic.

As for falling in a heap, that depends on how things are going in the US. If enough people in the US realise that by many objective measures the Cubans are better off then perhaps they won’t try so hard to destroy it.

By: craig

craig — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:36:16 +0000

if you can see past all the American propaganda, the Cuban revolution is one of the very few that was (and still is) beneficial for the population.

unfortunately, it’ll probably fall over in a heap shortly after Castro dies, which won’t be long now. The American multi-nationals will be back in force within a few years of that and turn it into another third-world labour pool for themselves.

but, on the whole, violent revolution has an abysmal track record – it generally makes things worse, much worse. Cuba, like India, is notable as an exception rather than the rule.

By: Rob Blake

Rob Blake — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:28:25 +0000

Russell,

I couldn’t agree more – in fact, I have been working on something around the whole idea of ‘Revolution from the bottom up’. I was wondering if I could quote this post. I was also wondering if you are familiar with ‘Empire’ and ‘Multitude’ by Hardt and Negri…