“I do not share the socialist belief that centralization of the necessaries of life will conduce to the common welfare, when the centralized industries are planned and owned by the State. The socialistic concept of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.”

—  Mahatma Gandhi

Harijan (27 January 1940) p. 428
1940s

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