The Slavery of Our Times by Leo TOLSTOY read by Various | Full Audio Book
The Slavery of Our Times by Leo TOLSTOY (1828 - 1910), translated by Aylmer MAUDE (1858 - 1938)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Political Science
Read by: Luke Meier, mheathvanhorn, Andrew David King, Ransom, AJ Muszynski, Guero, Michaela O'Connor, Jon Saunders in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Translator Introduction
00:20:18 - 01 - Aylmer Maude's Translation of Tolstoy's Preface
00:28:06 - 02 - Chapter One: Goods-Porters who Work Thirty-Seven Hours
00:37:11 - 03 - Chapter Two: Society's Indifference While Men Perish
00:43:50 - 04 - Chapter Three: Justification of the Existing Position by Science
00:50:17 - 05 - Chapter Four: The Assertion of Economic Science that Rural Labourers Must Enter the Factory System
01:01:47 - 06 - Chapter Five: Why Learned Economists Assert What is False
01:07:08 - 07 - Chapter Six: Bankruptcy of the Socialist Ideal
01:16:01 - 08 - Chapter Seven: Culture or Freedom?
01:23:18 - 09 - Chapter Eight: Slavery Exists Among Us
01:32:29 - 10 - Chapter Nine: What is Slavery?
01:37:02 - 11 - Chapter Ten: Laws Concerning Taxes, Land and Property
01:47:18 - 12 - Chapter Eleven: Laws the Cause of Slavery
01:53:55 - 13 - Chapter Twelve: The Essence of Legislation is Organised Violence
01:59:46 - 14 - Chapter Thirteen: What are Governments? Is it Possible to Exist Without Governments?
02:14:00 - 15 - Chapter Fourteen: How Can Governments be Abolished?
02:27:51 - 16 - Chapter Fifteen: What Should Each Man Do?
02:42:08 - 17 - 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)
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