Translator Introduction

Aylmer Maude's Translation of Tolstoy's Preface

Chapter One: Goods-Porters who Work Thirty-Seven Hours

Chapter Two: Society's Indifference While Men Perish

Chapter Three: Justification of the Existing Position by Science

Chapter Four: The Assertion of Economic Science that Rural Labourers Must Enter the Factory System

Chapter Five: Why Learned Economists Assert What is False

Chapter Six: Bankruptcy of the Socialist Ideal

Chapter Seven: Culture or Freedom?

Chapter Eight: Slavery Exists Among Us

Chapter Nine: What is Slavery?

Chapter Ten: Laws Concerning Taxes, Land and Property

Chapter Eleven: Laws the Cause of Slavery

Chapter Twelve: The Essence of Legislation is Organised Violence

Chapter Thirteen: What are Governments? Is it Possible to Exist Without Governments?

Chapter Fourteen: How Can Governments be Abolished?

Chapter Fifteen: What Should Each Man Do?

An Afterword