Walter Block on Milton Friedman
the bit about Mises stomping off with "you are all a bunch of socialists!" is priceless! - in conclusion Block mentions Mother Teresa and Gandhi among others
The difference between the non aggression principle and Gandhi's non violence couldn't be more profound. Gandhi was seeking to bring a moral change in the aggressor, to 'force' a repentance in the aggressor through sheer volume of tolerance.
He had a good enough understanding of the English conscience to know how to smite it through the media, but of course, quite different results would have obtained in the Spanish or French empires. The libertarian understanding of state and empire would permit no assumptions about the quality of conscience in state officials, because it is understood the moral trash of a society will accrete, and elevate, in the state structure.
The tactic of fast-unto-death was primarily a media tactic, a clever calculation on the British empire's policy not to let Gandhi become a martyr. He never tried, for instance, to convince his countrymen to abandon caste by fasting, because certain death would have been his reward for that fast! The hindu "tolerance" is for doctrinal diversity and pantheism, but only within the framework of Aryan supremacy, i.e. caste hierarchy supported by state law, and enforced with violence. Life for the so-called "dalits" of India has been one long Jalianwala Bagh nightmare.
Liberty requires no tolerance of evil, no tolerance of aggression. We require only that you do not initiate aggression. If it is initiated against you it is not only your right it is also your duty to terminate the aggression with the utmost urgency and force. The histories being written by Indian nationalists perpetuate the fiction that Gandhi's movement won Indian independence from Britain. The truth of the matter is the empire ran into a terminal obstruction of its' own coercive force, a mutiny in the Indian army, led by the soldiers' refusal to accept the court martialed executions of three Indian generals for treason - terminal, because the Indian army was "the sword arm of the [worldwide] empire" (Lord Wavell)
Walter Block on Milton Friedman