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)
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Episodes
Translator Introduction
Episode 0 · 20:18
Aylmer Maude's Translation of Tolstoy's Preface
Episode 1 · 7:47
Chapter One: Goods-Porters who Work Thirty-Seven Hours
Episode 2 · 9:05
Chapter Two: Society's Indifference While Men Perish
Episode 3 · 6:38
Chapter Three: Justification of the Existing Position by Science
Episode 4 · 6:26
Chapter Four: The Assertion of Economic Science that Rural Labourers Must Enter the Factory System
Episode 5 · 11:30
Chapter Five: Why Learned Economists Assert What is False
Episode 6 · 5:21
Chapter Six: Bankruptcy of the Socialist Ideal
Episode 7 · 8:52
Chapter Seven: Culture or Freedom?
Episode 8 · 7:17
Chapter Eight: Slavery Exists Among Us
Episode 9 · 9:11
Chapter Nine: What is Slavery?
Episode 10 · 4:32
Chapter Ten: Laws Concerning Taxes, Land and Property
Episode 11 · 10:15
Chapter Eleven: Laws the Cause of Slavery
Episode 12 · 6:37
Chapter Twelve: The Essence of Legislation is Organised Violence
Episode 13 · 5:50
Chapter Thirteen: What are Governments? Is it Possible to Exist Without Governments?
Episode 14 · 14:14
Chapter Fourteen: How Can Governments be Abolished?