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Be it in China or India, or any other nation, dictatorship or democracy, everywhere the power of the state is in the ascendant. The citizen is a mere cog, trapped in his minor hankerings even as enormous crimes are committed in his name. Gandhi was suspicious of the state, even a benevolent one, for, as he said, it represented concentrated violence. With all the drumbeat of spreading democracy, why has the state not withered away? Why does it instead continue to gather strength, seemingly by the hour?
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Paul Craig Roberts, “The Outlook for the New Year,” January 3, 2012. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30151.htm (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org).
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Ramakrishnan, N. (2013). W(h)ither the State?. In: Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325150_15
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