Word: gandhiism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, dangerous. They must be recognized as such and discarded. Politics must be reinvented: existing institutions must give way to some sort of transcendent sovereignty and security, presumably by a government that embraces all mankind. Schell invokes love and Mahatma Gandhi, appealing for a kind of international Gandhiism to replace the system of nuclear-armed nation-states we now have. How that noble ideal is to be accomplished, he does not say. "I have left to others those awesome, urgent tasks, which, imposed on us by history, constitute the political work of our age." Thanks...
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