Gandhism
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- (political science, philosophy) The philosophy and principles of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, encompassing the broad tenets of upholding truth, pacifism, and nonviolent activism; also rarely used for Gandhian economics.
- 1945, Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, Gandhism Reconsidered[1], page 28:
- Another critic observes Gandhism dreads the 'onslaught of technology' because it creates unemployment.
- 1972, Aleksandr Ivanovich Titarenko, Morality and politics;: Critical essays on contemporary views about the relationship between morality and politics in bourgeois sociology[2], page 142:
- In trying to curb modern political Machiavellianism, some of the more consistent humanists find this analogy in the ethical ideas and the political practice of Gandhiism.