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What Is the Nature of Power?

Shailesh Kumar Mishra says, I came across some outrageous claims on the internet that Buddhist monks were persecuted by Brahmins in ancient India. And Brahmins were solely responsible for the downfall of Buddhism in India. Please shed some light on this topic. See, this is part of the same narrative that we were just speaking about. Do we understand the nature of power? It was Mao Tse Tong who eloquently stated and gave the secret of what power is. He said that political power flows out of the barrel of a gun. A gun. Power only comes with the possibility of violence. If you want to persecute somebody, you need to have control of the means

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