SOC232H5 Chapter Notes -Mao Zedong, Ahimsa, Communist Party Of China
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Passage indicated ghandi"s realization that nonviolence must resist with structural sources of violence. Immorality of war; participation in war could never be consistent with ahinsa. Man cannot for a moment live without consciously or unconsciously committing outward hinsa (pg 266: very fact of his living involves some hinsa. As long as one continues to be a social being, he cannot but participate in the hinsa that the very existence of society involves (pg 266) All things in objective world and human thought formed and encouraged to move. Without the other aspect opposed to it, each aspect loses the condition of its existence(pg267) Lenin- how the opposites can be and how they become identical referring to such a state of affairs; because of the condition of mutual sustenance of each other"s existence (first meaning of identity)
