Slavery of Our Times

by Leo Tolstoy

18 chapters2h 46mEnglish1900

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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 (17)

1Aylmer Maude's Translation of Tolstoy's Preface

467

2Chapter One: Goods-Porters who Work Thirty-Seven Hours

545

3Chapter Two: Society's Indifference While Men Perish

398

4Chapter Three: Justification of the Existing Position by Science

386

5Chapter Four: The Assertion of Economic Science that Rural Labourers Must Enter the Factory System

690

6Chapter Five: Why Learned Economists Assert What is False

321

7Chapter Six: Bankruptcy of the Socialist Ideal

532

8Chapter Seven: Culture or Freedom?

437

9Chapter Eight: Slavery Exists Among Us

551

10Chapter Nine: What is Slavery?

272

11Chapter Ten: Laws Concerning Taxes, Land and Property

615

12Chapter Eleven: Laws the Cause of Slavery

397

13Chapter Twelve: The Essence of Legislation is Organised Violence

350

14Chapter Thirteen: What are Governments? Is it Possible to Exist Without Governments?

854

15Chapter Fourteen: How Can Governments be Abolished?

831

16Chapter Fifteen: What Should Each Man Do?

857

17An Afterword

277

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