Slavery of Our Times
Leo Tolstoy
18 chapters · 2 h 47 min · English
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Political Science · Miscellaneous
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This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so much, is related to economic and political life. (Summary by Aylmer Maude, Translator)
Chapters
1 Translator Introduction 20 min 2 Aylmer Maude's Translation of Tolstoy's Preface 8 min 3 Chapter One: Goods-Porters who Work Thirty-Seven Hours 9 min 4 Chapter Two: Society's Indifference While Men Perish 7 min 5 Chapter Three: Justification of the Existing Position by Science 6 min 6 Chapter Four: The Assertion of Economic Science that Rural Labourers Must Enter the Factory System 12 min 7 Chapter Five: Why Learned Economists Assert What is False 5 min 8 Chapter Six: Bankruptcy of the Socialist Ideal 9 min 9 Chapter Seven: Culture or Freedom? 7 min 10 Chapter Eight: Slavery Exists Among Us 9 min 11 Chapter Nine: What is Slavery? 5 min 12 Chapter Ten: Laws Concerning Taxes, Land and Property 10 min 13 Chapter Eleven: Laws the Cause of Slavery 7 min 14 Chapter Twelve: The Essence of Legislation is Organised Violence 6 min 15 Chapter Thirteen: What are Governments? Is it Possible to Exist Without Governments? 14 min 16 Chapter Fourteen: How Can Governments be Abolished? 14 min 17 Chapter Fifteen: What Should Each Man Do? 14 min 18 An Afterword 5 min
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