On Who Power Chooses to Negotiate With

I'm posting this video because it says some really interesting things. 
One of the things that Gelderloos talks about is how Gandhi was the ideal target for the British to negotiate with, even though he wasn't the only leader.  This is the exact same thing that happened in South Africa with Nelson Mandela. A lot of people think Mandela was the only leader, but he was not, he was the leader that the movement chose to use as P.R. to the international community, mostly because of his biography. Chris Hani and Winnie Mandela were both leaders and, since neither was under long term arrest, had more direct power, but because Nelson Mandela was the least radical and the most likely to maintain capitalism, he was the one the white apartheid government chose to work with. Mandela gave in to many white demands that allowed certain aspects of the previous oppressive system to remain in place, and revolution was not as overreaching as it could have been.  South Africa, for all its progress, is still a pretty miserable place, especially economically, where capitalist still control so much and the people have very little.