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Tag Archives: Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy: Must It Be So?
Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: “Why am I being hurt?” harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why … Continue reading
Reading war and anarchy with Sigmund Freud
The reflection that follows is driven by our own ongoing effort to understand the crises of our time, which now include the war in Ukraine, as well as being inspired by a video interview with Catherine Malabou, which we share … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-militarism, Catherine Malabou, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud
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Leo Tolstoy: The moral corruption of patriotism
Thoughts born of a protest march in solidarity with Ukraine … “Patriotism as a feeling of exclusive love for one’s own people, and as a doctrine of the virtue of sacrificing one’s tranquillity, one’s property, and even one’s life, in … Continue reading
Against War: Leo Tolstoy
Letter to A Non-Comissioned Officer (1898) You are surprised that soldiers are taught that it is right to kill people in certain cases and in war, while in the books admitted to be holy by those who so teach. there … Continue reading
Leo Tolstoy: Reading the ecological crisis as the sign of slavery
Electric lights and telephones and exhibitions are excellent, and so are all the pleasure-gardens, with concerts and performances, and all the cigars, and match-boxes, and braces, and motor cars, but they may all go to perdition, and not they alone, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-developmentalism, degrowth, ecology, Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy remembered against the pandemic
But actually history is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. […] In world history only those peoples that form states can come to our notice. G.W.F. Hegel, General Introduction to the Philosophy … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Giorgio Agamben, Leo Tolstoy, religion, State and terror
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Kutuzov: For a destituent strategy today
From lundi matin #249, 29/06/2020 … “Even those who denounce the permanent state of emergency do not hesitate to repeat the same slogans, to make the same appeals as the “decision-makers”, who now work shamelessly and in the open for … Continue reading
Viva Bresci!
Remembering Gaetano Bresci, with the Crimethinc. collective …
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Tagged anarchism, Errico Malatesta, Gaetano Bresci, italy, Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy and the resistance to war
A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced two men to years in prison for taking part in the recital of verses against the Ukraine campaign during an anti-mobilisation protest last year. Artyom Kamardin, 33, received a seven-year sentence for reciting a poem, and … Continue reading →