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Title: “Tolstoyism Gone to Seed” Author: Benjamin Tucker Date: November 25, 1927 Language: en Topics: letter Source: Retrieved on 2016-10-28 from http://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/tucker/1927/tolstoyism.htm Notes: Source: Benjamin R. Tucker Papers, New York Public Library; Transcribed: by Mitchell Abidor, 2009.
November 25, 1927
Dear Mr. Schumm:
I wrote you of the proposition of the National Institute for the Blind
regarding ‘The Ego and His Own.’ It turns out to be a bit less
encouraging than the first letters to Fifield indicated. Not bad,
though, after all. What it amounts to is this; a copy is to be cut in
raised type, by hand, by a volunteer, for Helen Keller, and a duplicate
is to be put in the general library of raised type for the blind. I
suppose, then, that Helen Keller is interested, or, if not, that some
enthusiastic person hopes to interest her.
One sees now in Russia the perfect realization of “peace at any price,’
a land that knows not hate, the flowering of the gospel of universal
love, Tolstoyism gone to seed. What a spectacle does that unhappy
country present today! Simple, stupid, sodden; reeking, rotting,
rampant; a deliquescent nest of life that crawls and creeps, she melts,
she sprawls, she slops, she stinks! A gigantic Camembert, in the last
disgusting stage.
Yours sincereley,
Benj R. Tucker
c/o Munroe & Co.
4 rue Ventadour
Paris, France