I did not agree with every position he took in life, but Leo Tolstoy was no statist: "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere." Here are photographs showing his transformation over his life. He died at age 82.
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| Tolstoy, 1848 (age 20) |
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| Tolstoy, 1868 (age 40) |
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| Tolstoy, 1902 (age 74) |
He greatly admired the sermon on the mount, and supported communism. Cognitive dissonance much?
ReplyDeleteYeah there was cognitive dissonance. He did not support communism (he was not a Marxist), but he was a naive Christian anarchist who decided to live the life of a penniless wandering homeless hermit...in Russia, in the winter, and in his eighties. I think he lasted a week or two before he died.
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