Leo Tolstoy was one of the most famous writers of the 19th century, much of his influential writing are emboldened by his hate for new technology. Tolstoy writings and ideas coincided with the advent of industrial revolution, this shaped Tolstoy's work into a sort of juxtaposition with Tolstoy's reality being that of slow technological progress yet the reality of the situation being technology was limitless. Throughout Tolstoy's life he faced tragedy, yet this didn't have as significant of an impact on his anarcho-liberal writing style in which shed his harsh cynicism on new technologies.
Tolstoy believed in a simplistic lifestyle rooted in individualism and that is really embellished, throughout his criticisms of the Industrial Revolution. …show more content…
He condemned all aristocrats as being a guilty party in what he saw was a move away from simplicity and moderation, to a new reckless, virtues-less, and corrupt society bent on inhumane practices. Specifically, the railroad, Tolstoy believe the railroad to have the equivalency of a trip intending to corrupt the common man by bringing him away from his rural lifestyle and urbanizing me thus destroying any set moral infrastructure in what Tolstoy puts as a “... just as inhumanely mechanical and deadly monotonous”. Tolstoy's thorough belief technology would put an end to a just and moral society, to a point in which society would devolve into pleasing the Bourgeois'.Tolstoy would go on later to state that he believes that this way of life is completely unstable for society to live upon, that if this is the society of which virtues are based off of that they will be corrupt in spirit.
Throughout the Industrial …show more content…
These events tell of a wars for natural resources/necessities, Interventionism based on resource wealth, nations fighting purely for expansionism, and power struggle at the expense of the common man. Tolstoy's teaching were correct in regards to moral deterioration, but they weren't economically correct as the advent of these new technologies allowed countries to mass manufacture and globalize. Overall in the 20th century we see some of his predictions come to fruition as some of the problems that the industrial revolution was a cause or a catalyst of come into
Tolstoy believed in a simplistic lifestyle rooted in individualism and that is really embellished, throughout his criticisms of the Industrial Revolution. …show more content…
He condemned all aristocrats as being a guilty party in what he saw was a move away from simplicity and moderation, to a new reckless, virtues-less, and corrupt society bent on inhumane practices. Specifically, the railroad, Tolstoy believe the railroad to have the equivalency of a trip intending to corrupt the common man by bringing him away from his rural lifestyle and urbanizing me thus destroying any set moral infrastructure in what Tolstoy puts as a “... just as inhumanely mechanical and deadly monotonous”. Tolstoy's thorough belief technology would put an end to a just and moral society, to a point in which society would devolve into pleasing the Bourgeois'.Tolstoy would go on later to state that he believes that this way of life is completely unstable for society to live upon, that if this is the society of which virtues are based off of that they will be corrupt in spirit.
Throughout the Industrial …show more content…
These events tell of a wars for natural resources/necessities, Interventionism based on resource wealth, nations fighting purely for expansionism, and power struggle at the expense of the common man. Tolstoy's teaching were correct in regards to moral deterioration, but they weren't economically correct as the advent of these new technologies allowed countries to mass manufacture and globalize. Overall in the 20th century we see some of his predictions come to fruition as some of the problems that the industrial revolution was a cause or a catalyst of come into