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Was Gandhi Revolutionary

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There is an opening scene in the 1980s film, Gandhi, where the man is being buried after his assassination. An announcer then reads a statement by Secretary of State Marshall who says “Mahatma Gandhi had become the spokesman for the conscience of all mankind. He was a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful than empires” (Copied from Wikipedia https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gandhi_(film) After reading the Magic Lantern’s account of the velvet revolution, my question is, was Gandhi a revolutionary? His non-violent model, copied by Martin Luther King, was repeatedly used by 1989 leaders to bring down the Warsaw Pact regimes. Could we consider this a new form of revolution, or is it simply a tactic used to push the ideas that make
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