Intro

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and as such I avoided him for along time. I did not want anything to do with dark, pesimistic Russian novels, such as I had read growing up in Cuba.

But Leo was different.

Reading his The Slavery of Our Times made me feel like I had been channeling Tolstoy as I was writing about about the Radical system.

Pacifist Lyof Nikolayevich

Tolstoy was a pacifist, but he could have been a Radical. Paficism is one of the many pointy things that stick out. But that is not the root of it. At the roort of it is the Radical system.

In Confession and My Religion he pretty much said that he was a follower of (the apocryphal) Jesus.

Fiat Religions

• Zoroastrianism influenced Judaism.
• Judaism influenced Christianity.
• Christianity and Judaism influenced Islam.

These systems, starting with Zoroastrianism, installed an all powerful boss god at the top and declared all other religions (systems) heathen,

The Internet and the Large Language Models say that Tolstoy declared himself a Christian, but is a lazy way of characterizing it. You can look in his books Confession and My Religion books to verify it.

He did come up with his own believe system based upon the teachings of Jesus, as per the Christian Bible, while rejecting the institutional church dogmas (orthodox, catholic, protestant, etc).

Violence

To Tolstoy, “violence done by man to man is wrong” and we agree. To us war, another form of violence, is wrong, too. In fact, any kind of man’s violence whether to individuals, group, or nations is wrong.

To Tolstoy is not that people should be restrained from violence, but that “violence should become abhorrent,”

• You want to stop all wars?
• You want violence out of police action?
• SHOW ITS ABHORRANCE!

Abhorrance comes directly from each one of us.

Meaning

Work loses all meaning.

We could not agree more.

Centralization

“Progress,” says Baddow, “in human well-being can only be achieved by relying more and more on reason and conscience, and less and less on man-made laws.” That is because laws are made by a few people. It is centralized in their land.

Reason and conscience comes from each of us. It is decentralized. Each of us are owners of our reason and conciousness. We can change the 'laws' that we agreed on. “No one action,” he says, “can be the next step for all men in all places”

This is decentralization!

Tranquilizing Explanations

Later it was up to ‘science,’

These are presented as “unalterable laws governing man’s economic activities.” He also called them “tranquilizing scientific explanations,”

In other words, the welfare of animals have to be defended. The welfare of people, on the other hand, only if it does not affect my pocketbook.

Ownership

The above is Fiat ownership. In the Radical system everybody who contributes to a company is a co-owner of that company determined by their RADs.

Slavery

Unfortunately, this is true to this day. The word ‘slavery’ is hard to write, but we must recognize that the Fiat system is based on it.

Businesses Are Unecessary

Radical companies are the alternative.

Decentralizaton

Tolstoy figured out that there would be many ways of doing things. In the case of the Radical system, what you put on top of the Foundation is up to the many ways of doing things.

Conclusion

The thing that this work and all the works on the subject are missing, is even an indication of how to go about undoing the many things that he identifies as evil and not good for people.

Admittedly, this was written well over a hundred years ago, so thisis not a criticism of Tolstoy’s work. Rather, I am pointing out that the Radical system exist as a follow up to what all the writers spoke of and point the way to what we can do about it.

In the books Radical Companies and Radical in Detail we get into specific detals.

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