10. He was against free trade.
There are not many policies that are as well-documented as serving lower classes as free and open trade. However, perhaps in connection to his wrong-headed beliefs in collectivist ideology, Gandhi is documented as being virulently against the practice, instead favoring protectionism. Said Gandhi, “Free trade may be good for England, which dumps down her manufactures among helpless people and wishes her wants to be supplied from outside at the cheapest rate. But free trade has ruined India’s peasantry . . . Moreover, no new trade can compete with foreign trade without protection.”
