Great Regulars: Gandhi's efforts in South Africa

were signs to Tolstoy that non-violence based on the importance of personal virtue could be put into practice. Much of the last years of Tolstoy's life was a harsh struggle against darkness as represented by the State, its war-making power, its ideologies, and the social thinking that structured the State. Colonialism, imperialism and the oppression of the indigenous races were the hallmark of the State. He saw the forces at work that would lead to the First World War and the Russian Revolution.

from René Wadlow's The Flutes of Dionysus: Newropeans Magazine: Tolstoy and Gandhi: Light as Darkness Approached

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