Buddha or Karl Marx

Buddha or Karl Marx

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Contents

I.                 THE CREED OF THE BUDDHA

II.               THE ORIGINAL CREED OF KARL MARX 

III.             WHAT SURVIVES OF THE MARXIAN CREED

IV.            COMPARISON BETWEEN BUDDHA AND KARL MARX

V.              THE MEANS

VI.            EVALUATION OF MEANS

VII.           WHOSE MEANS ARE MORE EFFICACIOUS

VIII.         WITHERING AWAY OF THE STATE

RANADE GANDHI AND JINNAH

 RANADE, GANDHI AND JINNAH

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Address delivered on the 101st Birthday Celebration

of

MAHADEO GOVIND RANADE

held on the 18th January 1943

in

the Gokhale Memorial Hall, Poona

First Published: 1943 Reprinted from the first edition of 1943

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Contents

PREFACE            I         II        III       IV       V        VI       VIII     IX       X

PREFACE

The Deccan Sabha of Poona invited me to deliver an address on the 101st birthday of the late Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade which it proposed to celebrate and which fell on the 18th January 1940. I was not very willing to accept the invitation. For I knew that my views on social and political problems, a discussion of vvhich could not be avoided in a discourse on Ranade, would not very pleasing to  the audience and even perhaps to the members of the Deccan Sabha. in the end I accepted their invitation. At the time when I delivered the address I had no intention of publishing it. Addresses delivered on anniversaries of great men are generally occasional pieces. They do not have much permanent value. I did not think that my address was an exception to this. But I have some troublesome friends who have been keen on seeing the whole of it in print and have been insisting upon it. I am indifferent to the idea. I am quite content with the publicity it has receiver and I have no desire to seek more. At the same time if there are people who think that it is worthy of being rescued from falling into oblivion. I do not see any reason for disappointing them.