interdependance

Ghandi saw that the only beneficient independance was the kind that led to interdependence. 'Isolated independance is not the goal,' he said. 'It is a voluntary interdependance.' He arrived at this conclusion through no abstruse theorizing about internationalism or world government. Gandhi was addicted to love; it was the basis of his relations with people. Love is creative interdependance. And since Gandhi regarded nations not as abstract legal entities but as agglomerations of human beings with names, noses, aches and smiles, he believed that international relationships should be founded on interdependance and love.

Louis Fischer - The Life Of Mahatma Gandhi