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Audible sampleWhat Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage Paperback – 1 June 2012
by Norman G. Finkelstein (Author)
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Shoe Person
5.0 out of 5 stars Has me thinkingReviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2024
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It’s been a while since I thought about the teachings of Gandhi. And I’ve read very little on him so I was thrilled to see Norman Finkelstein’s perspective on Gandhi. It has given me food for thought.
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Manicka
5.0 out of 5 stars RecommendedReviewed in India on 28 August 2021
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Well researched short book on how Gandhi empowered the powerless 99 percent against the greedy 1 percent. Today, Gandhi is more relevant in India and this book is a very good introduction to understand how we can strive for redistribution / devolution of power to the masses. Recommended.
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BuffaloJim
5.0 out of 5 stars Good bookReviewed in Canada on 20 January 2020
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Quite an eye-opening insight into a interesting person
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Michael Hoffman
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising insights into Gandhi and a roadmap for victory for PalestiniansReviewed in the United States on 23 October 2015
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Dr. Finkelstein’s brief book surprised me with its insights. I thought I knew Gandhi, but the author shows that he was not a pacifist. He chose non-violence because that was the only means by which British imperialism could be driven out of India. Finkelstein demonstrates that Gandhi's non-violence was in many respects more brutal than the violence of a military army. Gandhi expected his followers to walk into the guns of the enemy with complete courage and resolve, fully expecting to die. Few soldiers face those kinds of odds on a daily, weekly and monthly basis as did Gandhi’s followers.
Furthermore, the author is passionately committed to mercy and justice for the Palestinian people, and it’s my prayer that the Palestinian masses will heed this call to the only path to victory open to them at present, in their battle with the massive state power of the Israelis: the tactics of Gandhi.
As noted this book is brief, but the scholarship behind it is not shallow. Finkelstein read exhaustively in Gandhi’s papers, including portions seldom if ever quoted. This book is yet another significant contribution to human knowledge by a scholar who has suffered ritual defamation and loss of employment, and his teaching career itself, for his beliefs.
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Aastha Mehta
4.0 out of 5 stars Fresh-Take on Mahatma GandhiReviewed in India on 28 June 2020
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A short read of 90 pages compressing the plethora of literature on Mahatama Gandhi's principles of resistance, Satygaraha and non-violence. Norman Finkelstein analyses Gandhiji's doctrine of non-violence and Satyagraha, from a fresh outlook. This book brings to the readers, in a crisp manner, the philosophy of a man who led a revolution based not on brutality, but mutual love, humanity and civil disobedience.
The book draws from three major sources of Gandhiji's work,
1. Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi published by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
2. Essential Writings by Mahatma Gandhi &
3. Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha) by Mahatma Gandhi
The book is bound to shock since the interpretation Finkelstein lends to the Gandhiji's various doctrines are not actually a part of mainstream perception associated with him. Contrary to the popular belief that non-violence meant inaction or subjugation on part of the oppressed, the book tells that Gandhiji loathed cowardice and inaction. He often worried that non-violence is used as a cloak for those who fear death by being inactive and coward. In fact, shockingly the book based on his own writings claims that Gandhiji advocated a valliant attitude for those who could not muster up enough courage to face the oppressors non-violently, and therefore fight and die in battle. He also openly supported violence in case of self-defence.
The book then proceeds to claim that the crux of Gandhiji's doctrine lay on the principle of "sacrifice" and fearlessness of death, which is bound to "melt even the stoniest of hearts" of Englishmen. His undying belief in the human capacity to love, made him believe that facing death with a smile on the face is bound to transform the hearts of the oppressors who will then shed their roles of conquerors and see the heinousness of their actions.
While drawing from his writings, Finkelstein points out the inconsistencies and impracticality of his thought process, but at the same time, hoists Gandhiji as a "practical idealist" who believed in action rather than words. It is a book which throws some insight on Gandhiji's principles not from a standpoint of a "reformer" but a politician, an orator and a man with a deep connect with grassroots.
One of the most interesting aspect of the book is Gandhiji's attitude towards participation of Indian troops in World-War II to help the Allies. Some startling facts come to the fore in this book, vis-à-vis his letter to "Dear Friend, Hitler", his advice to the Jews about incorporating non-violent attitude and whether use of violence by Allies makes them any different from Hitler. These are some of the many debatable topics dealt within the book.
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Shoe Person
5.0 out of 5 stars Has me thinkingReviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2024
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It’s been a while since I thought about the teachings of Gandhi. And I’ve read very little on him so I was thrilled to see Norman Finkelstein’s perspective on Gandhi. It has given me food for thought.
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Manicka
5.0 out of 5 stars RecommendedReviewed in India on 28 August 2021
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Well researched short book on how Gandhi empowered the powerless 99 percent against the greedy 1 percent. Today, Gandhi is more relevant in India and this book is a very good introduction to understand how we can strive for redistribution / devolution of power to the masses. Recommended.
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BuffaloJim
5.0 out of 5 stars Good bookReviewed in Canada on 20 January 2020
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Quite an eye-opening insight into a interesting person
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Michael Hoffman
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising insights into Gandhi and a roadmap for victory for PalestiniansReviewed in the United States on 23 October 2015
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Dr. Finkelstein’s brief book surprised me with its insights. I thought I knew Gandhi, but the author shows that he was not a pacifist. He chose non-violence because that was the only means by which British imperialism could be driven out of India. Finkelstein demonstrates that Gandhi's non-violence was in many respects more brutal than the violence of a military army. Gandhi expected his followers to walk into the guns of the enemy with complete courage and resolve, fully expecting to die. Few soldiers face those kinds of odds on a daily, weekly and monthly basis as did Gandhi’s followers.
Furthermore, the author is passionately committed to mercy and justice for the Palestinian people, and it’s my prayer that the Palestinian masses will heed this call to the only path to victory open to them at present, in their battle with the massive state power of the Israelis: the tactics of Gandhi.
As noted this book is brief, but the scholarship behind it is not shallow. Finkelstein read exhaustively in Gandhi’s papers, including portions seldom if ever quoted. This book is yet another significant contribution to human knowledge by a scholar who has suffered ritual defamation and loss of employment, and his teaching career itself, for his beliefs.
Read less
12 people found this helpfulReport
Aastha Mehta
4.0 out of 5 stars Fresh-Take on Mahatma GandhiReviewed in India on 28 June 2020
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A short read of 90 pages compressing the plethora of literature on Mahatama Gandhi's principles of resistance, Satygaraha and non-violence. Norman Finkelstein analyses Gandhiji's doctrine of non-violence and Satyagraha, from a fresh outlook. This book brings to the readers, in a crisp manner, the philosophy of a man who led a revolution based not on brutality, but mutual love, humanity and civil disobedience.
The book draws from three major sources of Gandhiji's work,
1. Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi published by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
2. Essential Writings by Mahatma Gandhi &
3. Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha) by Mahatma Gandhi
The book is bound to shock since the interpretation Finkelstein lends to the Gandhiji's various doctrines are not actually a part of mainstream perception associated with him. Contrary to the popular belief that non-violence meant inaction or subjugation on part of the oppressed, the book tells that Gandhiji loathed cowardice and inaction. He often worried that non-violence is used as a cloak for those who fear death by being inactive and coward. In fact, shockingly the book based on his own writings claims that Gandhiji advocated a valliant attitude for those who could not muster up enough courage to face the oppressors non-violently, and therefore fight and die in battle. He also openly supported violence in case of self-defence.
The book then proceeds to claim that the crux of Gandhiji's doctrine lay on the principle of "sacrifice" and fearlessness of death, which is bound to "melt even the stoniest of hearts" of Englishmen. His undying belief in the human capacity to love, made him believe that facing death with a smile on the face is bound to transform the hearts of the oppressors who will then shed their roles of conquerors and see the heinousness of their actions.
While drawing from his writings, Finkelstein points out the inconsistencies and impracticality of his thought process, but at the same time, hoists Gandhiji as a "practical idealist" who believed in action rather than words. It is a book which throws some insight on Gandhiji's principles not from a standpoint of a "reformer" but a politician, an orator and a man with a deep connect with grassroots.
One of the most interesting aspect of the book is Gandhiji's attitude towards participation of Indian troops in World-War II to help the Allies. Some startling facts come to the fore in this book, vis-à-vis his letter to "Dear Friend, Hitler", his advice to the Jews about incorporating non-violent attitude and whether use of violence by Allies makes them any different from Hitler. These are some of the many debatable topics dealt within the book.
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“The day after, bloody revolutions seem always to disappoint, and in the scramble to the top, those with the most blood on their hands seem always to get there first.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says
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“لقد اُختُزل غاندي في ابتهالٍ يطابق بين اسمه واللاعنف.”
― أحمد زراقي, What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
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“True, the annals of humankind appear rife with violence. But, Gandhi contended, this was an optical illusion fostered by scribes and scholars who, by virtue of their profession, took note of the exceptions to the rule: “History is really a record of every interruption of the even working of the force of love or of the soul.”3”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says
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“If Gandhi preached simultaneously the virtues of nonviolence and courage, it was because he believed that nonviolence required more courage than violence.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
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“It defies belief that, if the groups targeted by Hitler for extermination had practiced noncoercive, nonviolent resistance, they could have quickened his conscience and melted his heart. The only Gandhian strategies possibly effective against a Hitler would be noncooperation on a mass scale, and mobilizing sympathetic public opinion through self suffering, in order, not to tug at his heartstrings, but to politically defeat him.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
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