Slavery of Our Times

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Political Science

Authors: Leo Tolstoy In Year : 1900

Book Language: English

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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

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)