Hello, I'm Catherine Carr, producer of talking politics. In the sixth episode of our series history of ideas

David talks about Gandhi's Hind Swaraj which made the case for Indian

independence but also for a completely new way of doing politics.

New, at least for Western societies.

Could they cope?

Not really. The

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So far, all the authors that I've been talking about in this series have very much belonged to the Western tradition. They have all with

one exception being dead white men and the exception Mary Wolsomcroft is a dead

white woman. Even Marx and Engels, who wanted to more or less overturn

the entire social order of their societies, were doing it from within the intellectual tradition that had created that social order,

the scientific revolution, the series of ideas through the 17th, 18th and 19th century that built the world that they wanted

to sweep away.

Today I'm going to be talking about someone who does not come from inside that tradition, Mohandas or Mahatma or

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