A REPLY TO TOLSTOY
L'Affranchissement futur: pour servir de suite à l'Esclavage moderne du Comte Tolstoi.
Paris.
Librairie Guillaumin, 1901.
First edition.
8vo.
58pp. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, edges chipped, wrappers very nearly detahced, loss to spine. Slight loss to upper corner of half-title.
An apparently unrecorded pamphlet by Polish economist Stanislas Skarynski responding to Tolstoy's essay The Slavery of Our Times (1900). Inspired by Tolstoy's contention that in a society founded on violence one is either enslaved or a slave-owner, Skarzynski considers the possibility of transforming society through granting freedom to modern enslaved, peasants, and workers, whist exploring how societal change may be effected peaceably.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 31155