Actually, after being appalled by his analysis of jacobinism (Robespierre or the "Divine Violence of Terror" - which I find very un-historical) and by his appearance in the BBC docudrama, I have decided to give him a chance and hear more from him. Actually, I have found he makes quite a lot of interesting points on different subjects (limits of empathy, "tolerance" versus fraternité, social versus cultural analysis etc.). I have put the links on my LJ, as well as some of my comments on what I find relevant. Now I understand what he meant by the reference to Gandhi in the docudrama, he was not allowed to explain it: he meant that Gandhi's resistence through organized mass negation to patricipate in the functionning of the colonial regime was a very "violent" and efficient way of disrupting the instituttions of British colonial rule.
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Date: 2009-08-28 08:02 am (UTC)Now I understand what he meant by the reference to Gandhi in the docudrama, he was not allowed to explain it: he meant that Gandhi's resistence through organized mass negation to patricipate in the functionning of the colonial regime was a very "violent" and efficient way of disrupting the instituttions of British colonial rule.