Tagore

Gandhi vs. Tagore

Empires are fundamentally economic ventures Power issue Unbalanced relationship- Get rid of it and then solve the economic problem; the unbalanced relationship causes the economic problem* || -Immoral Millions of poor people Must address poverty Economic problem, you wouldn't make a scarce substance more scarce || Schools create cogs (clerks and interpreters) in the evil machine (the empire) Don't cooperate with evil Go and you'll become enslaved || Go-you'll become smarter and India needs smarter people to solve it's problems, go and you'll become liberated || Practical later || Practical Will lead to moral solutions ||
 * || Gandhi || Tagore ||
 * Burning Clothes || Necessary to end imperialism
 * Attending Government Schools || Don't go!
 * || Moral now
 * || Negative acts are necessary to get rid of evil and be able to do positive things (positive + negative=purity)

It is necessary to actively remove the evil parts of society as well as do good acts in order to achieve purity || Positive ||
 * || Reject current western system because it is evil, remove that evil you can deal with what's left; get rid of west but not forever || Modernizer-Westernizer ||

Failure of non-cooperation would be that people are not pure enough to be non-violent

*Don't want a Great Wall between them and the western world though Tagore is a westernizer and a modernizer. Because he sees the problem as an economic problem, the sacrifice is unnecessary because making an economic product more scarce makes the problem worse. Must fix the economic (poverty) problem first and then move on to the moral rights.