Gandhian World Order Model Essay

CHAPTER 5

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Gandhi world order model presented a blueprint of the peaceful, just, equitable and egalitarian world order free of violence, exploitation, injustice and inequality. Gandhian world order is a critique of all the existing world order models and theories and a fundamental departure, as Gandhian world order comprehends individual as basic unit of bringing change in the existent world order. Apart from this, it is totally non-materialistic and non-exploitative in economic structure and non-violent and equalitarian in social structure and decentralised and spiritualised in the political structure. Gandhi advocated for nonviolent state or enlightened anarchy or ‘Rama Rajya’, because Gandhi was not in the favour of existent state, which was a source of violence and based on suppression and exploitation.

Gandhi himself faced the inhumanness of the then so-called prudent and libertarian British government in South Africa and later in India. He identified that most of the states did not recognise the rights, peace, equality and justice, but they protected and promoted violence, inequality, imperialism, colonialism etc. Such industrial, inhuman, violent, coercive and

Gandhi considered the individual basically moral and peaceful inherited with truth and nonviolence in its character. But this perception of individual is too idealistic and unrealistic. In reality, the personality and character of individual is very complex. The individual is not only governed by only positive values or ethics, but also by negative traits e.g. selfishness, ego and anger etc. rather it would be better to say the human nature is most complex one, not simple as envisaged by Mahatma Gandhi. The self-interest and social, economic and political environment of the human being affect its