Ideologies / Georgism / Leo Tolstoy
§ The minds · 1828–1910 · Russia · Novelist & reformer
Leo Tolstoy
The land belongs to all
A novelist's Georgist conscience.
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The great novelist who became an ardent disciple of Henry George, weaving the case that land belongs to all and should be taxed for the common good into his late moral writings.
social
Radical moral progressive of conscience.
economic
Endorsed Henry George's single tax as moral justice for the land.
governance
Christian-anarchist suspicion of the coercive state.
Notable for
- Champion of Henry George
- 'Resurrection' and land reform
- Christian-anarchist ethics
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