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I wish this fucker could have lived long enough to witness and write about the soviet union


He would have celebrated the revolution only to see it devolve into the horrors of the civil war, and ultimately, leftists of all flavours systematically massacring Christians and spreading death and despair and nihilism on an unimaginable scale

Imagine the fucking kino he would have written after that experience.

* leftists of all flavours systematically massacring Christians and spreading death and despair and nihilism on an unimaginable scale while simultaneously praising his works

Was he idealist or materialist? If the former, I doubt he would have celebrated the revolution

>>24662431 (OP)
He was skeptical of revolution and would not have celebrated it. Especially towards his later life he became more and more of a pacifist because he had first hand witnessed the futility, stupidity, and horrors of war.

>>24663474
I understand that, but I think he would have secretly enjoyed the idea of the tsarist regime coming to an end given how utterly neurotic he was about it. a guilty pleasure, if you will, from instinctive tribalism


but imagine if the guy who wrote war and peace lived through the russian revolution and civil war and early Bolshevik regime and had the opportunity to write about it

>>24662431 (OP)
Have you ever noticed how every time a socialist or communist government got started the Yanks tried to (did) fuck it up (Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, etc) with their CIA bullshit? And the only country who pulled it off (China) were the people who were too large to be fucked with? It's almost like the capitalists had an interest in making sure democracy (lobbyist autocracy) succeeded so they could keep playing the pay to win game.

>>24663474
Memerlution

>>24665370
ive also noticed that that doesn't make communism any less shit

>>24665813
True. The future is something like the Nordic model with a high degree of automation and maybe UBI.

Yes, imagine him getting killed by the bolsheviks.

>>24662431 (OP)
>He would have celebrated the revolution
No idea why you would think this. He was against all states and wrote articles criticizing socialist movements

>born a rich kid with tons of land
>probably raped his serfs and showed off to everyone how cool he was
>did a bunch of fucked up shit in his youth
>suddenly grows old with a shit wife
>suddenly becomes a wannabe orthodox christian monk
This is a archetype that's way more common than it looks...
Either way in sure Tolstoy would be able to understand that a communist regime inherently must be authoritarian and rigid. Capitalism doesn't opress by taking your things away or putting you in a jail cell (although it can do that!) It just gives you options that enslave you like drugs, sex, internet brainrot and so on.
Im also pretty sure Tolstoy would have been purged one way or the other. Specially during Stalin
A burogeiosei will always be a bureotgiesie and they will buorbongeoise

>>24662448
Do we know if he was socialist or not?

>>24665819
>Future?

>>24662431 (OP)
he would have written a strongly worded letter to Lenin and Trotsky opening it with a Bible verse scolding them.

>>24662431 (OP)
>He would have celebrated the revolution
Only jews did that.

>>24665370
>implying communist groups hadn't been subverting every western democracy for decades
But it's OK when they do it, amirite?

>>24665819
>UBI
Leftist fantasy, for true believers in the magic money tree.

>>24665819
The job market in North America is totally trash, we are firmly in the "people are suffering but it hasn't reached the powerful people yet" limbo phase. There are only two places to go from here, violent revolution or massively expanded social programs À la UBI.

>>24665833
Maybe they'd just give him a mock execution, like Dostoevsky.

>>24667675
The USA has suffered much higher unemployment rates than today. Your violent revolution remains a lurid pipe dream.

>>24667673
not exactly magic, just AI causing another major revolution in industrial productivity

>>24662431 (OP)
>leftists of all flavours systematically massacring Christians
Why do they always end up doing this?

>>24667821
because christfags are fucking annoying and ruin everyone else's day when they're in charge.

>>24667363
He spent the last day of his life annoying the people he was sharing a train with about this hot new economic theory he'd just learned about named Georgism so you decide.

>>24667673
There already exists a magic money tree, why do you think the deficit is $37 trillion? It's just that, currently, the money tree's fruit is handed over to Wall Street.

>>24667683
>Taking unemployment data seriously
NGMI, how many times do they need to be shown to straight up falsify this data before you wake up?

>>24668101
>the biggest budget item is transfer payments to low income individuals
>the next is debt service
>the next is military which is a jobs program for otherwise unemployable individuals
yeah i'm not seeing a lot of wall street in there dude

>>24668127
>Wall Street traders have a lower tax rate than low income workers
>Fed bails out their portfolios any time there is a crash

Tolstoy would be horrified by atheist "Jews" massacring the head of state and his family shortly before killing him as well for being a devout Christian. At best, he would be enslaved first then killed.

>>24668419

Tolstoy would also be horrified at atheist "Jews" bombing Orthodox churches in Palestine full of Christian children.

Both the communists and zionists give themselves this Hebrew title yet deny God and follow atheist ideologies.

Truly they are agents of Satan.

>>24668423

Tolstoy, a Christian man of God, would be quite familiar with the Book of Revelation.

>>24668104
>dude wake up
LOL schizo

>>24668101
>think the deficit is $37 trillion
I think you mean debt.
It's cute when Marxists try to do economics.

>>24668698
If you've read through Trump's Big Beautiful Bill you know the deficit soon will be $37 trillion lol

>>24668425
>Tolstoy
>Christian Man of God
Tolstoy said he thought Jesus Christ was God and he got excommunicated for it. He is only a Christian by his reckless definition of it.

>>24669405
He explicitly rejected the idea that Christ was God. He thought he was just some smart guy who happened to understand some esoteric divine truth about life that even Tolstoy had a hard time defining