Tolstoy’s Guide to Freedom
One of the questions to which Russian author Leo Tolstoy lent his considerable intellectual talents concerned “the oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it.”
How was it possible, he pondered, that “a majority of working people submit to a handful of idlers who control their labor and their very lives?”
The “idlers” to which he referred were the British, led by Rothschild, though he never mentioned the dynasty by name. British imperialism within India at the turn of the 20th century followed a sad, predictable pattern. If the pattern to enslavement was universal then so too must be the path to freedom, Tolstoy reasoned.
Tolstoy was a Russian aristocrat and one of the greatest intellectuals of his generation. Among his notable works are War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
His testament of faith can be found within his book, The Kingdom of God is within You.
That the Indians allowed themselves to be enslaved by the British appalled Tolstoy who observed that within India, “more than two hundred million people, highly gifted both physically and mentally, find themselves in the power of a small group of people quite alien to them in thought, and immeasurably inferior to them in religious morality.”
What led to their enslavement and how might they free themselves from bondage?
Read the rest of the article on Susan’s Substack.
(c) 2024 Susan Bradford
www.susanbradford.org