rulers, their strategies towards such positions of prestige were quite different. Even their

favoring views on socialism were different: Mao leaning towards a capitalistic form of

socialism while Gandhi praised manual labor for all. Mao took the road of propaganda

and force, while Gandhi emphasized passive resistance and worked to achieve the love of

Industrialization brought forth powerful feelings from both rulers: Gandhi

detested it while Mao clung to it. Gandhi, the "little brown saint," placed his emphasis

on manual labor, hoping to unify all the castes in India and humble the people of his

country. After all, Gandhi did make his own clothes and adapted to the dress of peasants

in his later years. In this way, he wanted his followers to see he was just like them,

unlike Mao, who taught the people of his country to replace their thoughts with his own.

Mao's Little Red Book was required reading to all c

own cloth and garments, preaching the simple virtues of manual labor. A historically

The two aspects existed hand in hand. To enforce his beliefs, Gandhi would make his

was how he would take his punishment, realizing he went against the law. Never would

united under one leadership, passively fight against racial prejudice, promote religious

communist party. His Great Leap Forward of 1958, bringing forth people's communes,

his point, for violence and religiously motivated attacks had declined significantly.

getting beaten, still urged himself on to burn numerous Indian passes. These slips were

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