Leo TOLSTOY
The Slavery of Our Times
- Translator Introduction
- Aylmer Maude’s Translation of Tolstoy’s Preface
- Chapter One: Goods-Porters who Work Thirty-Seven Hours
- Chapter Two: Society’s Indifference While Men Perish
- Chapter Three: Justification of the Existing Position by Science
- Chapter Four: The Assertion of Economic Science that Rural Labourers Must Enter the Factory System
- Chapter Five: Why Learned Economists Assert What is False
- Chapter Six: Bankruptcy of the Socialist Ideal
- Chapter Seven: Culture or Freedom?
- Chapter Eight: Slavery Exists Among Us
- Chapter Nine: What is Slavery?
- Chapter Ten: Laws Concerning Taxes, Land and Property
- Chapter Eleven: Laws the Cause of Slavery
- Chapter Twelve: The Essence of Legislation is Organised Violence
- Chapter Thirteen: What are Governments? Is it Possible to Exist Without Governments?
- Chapter Fourteen: How Can Governments be Abolished?
- Chapter Fifteen: What Should Each Man Do?
- An Afterword
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The Slavery of Our Times
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)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Political Science
Language: English