**I find it strange that you are attacked for posting a negative article about a man who definitely had socialist leanings.
It feels like a bad dream...I am on the Free Republic website, aren't I?**
I don't find it that strange, unfortunately. Gandhi is one of those people whom even conservatives have been systematically trained by the media and the government-run education system to uphold as an example of goodness and purity. Nevermind that he did have his racist moments (and not just when he was a young man) and was a socialist. To his credit, however, he disassociated himself from the hard-core Nazi-supporter types like Bose and vocally opposed them.
Yes...I was shocked by the number of people who were almost hero-worshipping Arthur Miller after he died. This even though Miller through his plays was a major force causing the anti-freedom and anti-church philosophies we suffer from today. Amazing. Same dynamic with Gandhi.
No surprise that Gandhi spoke out against the Nazis. All socialists hated the Nazis, Gandhi included.