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Gandhi actually believed that Britain should have surrendered to Germany during WWII, and that Jews should adopt "active nonviolence" that "would melt the stony hearts" of Nazis stuffing them into ovens. That about says it all.

Gandhi dropped all his "pacifist" BS the minute he obtained govt power. Violence is violence, whether it is an invading army or a tax collector. If you reject the very possiblity of legit violence, then you cannot have (or in Gandhi's case, lead) a govt, since a govt supposedly exists to hold a monopoly of legit violence, which a pacifist things is an oxymoron.

Every pacifist must be an anarchist to be consistent, and Gandhi was not. (The reverse isn't true - anarchists don't have to be pacifists, IMHO, since their problem isn't necessarily with violence - you can defend yourself - but with govt).