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Wrong about Gandhi and UFPJ

"The reason for this is that the leadership of the so-called peace movement that plans these "weekend" events has successfully prevented the natural Gandhian evolution of the movement - that is, the people's natural desire to raise the stakes in the face of continual horrific outrages perpetrated by the government and the cowardly official elected opposition."

Is that what Gandhi was doing when he opposed Indian independence (citing violence against the British occupiers as evidence that Indians were not "ready" for independence)? Or when he didn't lift a finger to oppose the British imperialists' lynching of Bhaghat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru?

"I truly wish there was another way to respond to this insidious and deliberate establishment liberal takeover of the peace movement but there isn't. I will not attend another peace rally until the people who are causing this subterfuge are removed from these committees and replaced..."

UFPJ is an establishment liberal takeover of the peace movement? UFPJ is a peace coalition. It's leadership is actually very left-wing, but it is representative of a large-cross section of the general anti-war movement. I'm sorry that you don't find the reality of democratically-run mass coalition work as palatable as your "Gandhian" petit-bourgeois fantasies. Nevertheless, you seriously need to learn your history.

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