Any social transformation or reconstruction involves two important issues. The first is the strategic procedure to be implemented to change or replace one set of social systems by another set of systems. The second is the process of resolution of conflicts which are likely to crop up in this process of transformation. Gandhi gives his constructive programme so as to transform one set of social system into another. Gandhi believes that by massive voluntary constructive programme social system can be changed in a desirable way. Then he suggests his doctrine of satyagraha as a means to resolve any conflict in case it arises in the process. But the ultimate goal of Sarvodaya is to establish a classless and stateless model of interdependent, self-sufficient and autonomous village republics. So the ultimate purpose of Sarvodaya would be to achieve a form of anarchism. The whole scheme of rebuilding the social and political structure would pass though three stages. They are-
- The existing social order and its maladies would be removed by massive constructive programme.
- There would be a liberal democratic republic replacing all political systems like colonialism, fascism, communism or western democracy.
- An anarchist model of decentralized, self-dependent, mutually supporting village republics would be established withering away the state and its structural components.
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