#pubdate 2016-10-29 16:04:57 +0000 #title “Tolstoyism Gone to Seed” #author Benjamin Tucker #LISTtitle “Tolstoyism Gone to Seed” #SORTauthors Benjamin Tucker #SORTtopics letter #date November 25, 1927 #source Retrieved on 2016-10-28 from http://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/tucker/1927/tolstoyism.htm #lang en #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