Gandhi on many occasions declared himself an anarchist - of his own kind - and he created, partly from his readings of Tolstoy and Kropotkin and partly on the basis of Indian communitarian traditions, the plan of a decentralized society based on autonomous village communes. (George Woodcock)

Gandhi on many occasions declared himself an anarchist - of his own kind - and he created, partly from his readings of Tolstoy and Kropotkin and partly on the basis of Indian communitarian traditions, the plan of a decentralized society based on autonomous village communes.

George Woodcock

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