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Tolstoy on War and State

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Considered one of the greatest novelists of all time, Lev Tolstoy authored such celebrated works as War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Below you will find an excerpt from Tolstoy's book The Kingdom of God Is Within You. Of special importance for students of political theory is the sixth chapter in which Tolstoy explains why the peace movement of his time was destined for failure. With his preternatural insight, Tolstoy shows how the governments of that day not only co-opted the peace movement but used it to further the cause of war.

In the process of explaining that insidious co-option, Tolstoy elucidates the nature of the state and explains why violence and war are necessary for its successful functioning.

Tolstoy thus affirms the truth of a dictum frequently quoted by Murray Rothbard: "War is the health of the state." If you ever doubted that this is so, let Tolstoy's conclusions serve as evidence of its correctness. It cannot be an accident that the views on government of a Russian literary mystic cohere so closely with that of an unorthodox Jewish economist from Bronx. Their views can only coincide, because their quest for truth took them to the same destination despite their different backgrounds and cultures.
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