Gandhiji considered this to be Duragraha (evil-force). In his journal, Young India, of 1924 he named Politics without Principles as the first of Seven Social Sins or Evils. He established stringent conditions and norms for those who lead and embark on hartals and strikes as he foresaw abuse of these powerful tools and wrote about it in the Young India of 1920. Definitely capital is helpless without labor. No capital can stop labor when it wakes up from its slumber like a giant, and becomes aware of its rights. Then capital will not be able to ride on the back of labor. Interestingly today, September 3, 2012, the first Monday in September, marking the end of Summer and the beginning of the school year, as I drive from Boston to New York, the whole of the USA is celebrating labor day being little aware that the foundation of this nation was built on the sweat and blood slave labor of the African Americans and the decimated, contained, horrendous, rooted-out, and re-settled Native Americans (known as Red Indians in India) in reservations.
Labor aware of its rights does not want to self-destruct running amok like a mad elephant led by blind politicians without principles. Gandhiji wrote in the Young India of 1932 that labor instead of sterilizing capital often fails by seizing capital and becoming the worst kind of capitalists themselves. Politicians coming out of abject poverty have become filthy rich in Idukki district and other parts of Kerala (India) riding on the back of labor unions engage quotation teams (hired hoodlums) to do their sinister jobs, and to maintain their privileged status. (To be continued).
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