APPEAL TO RUSSIAN PEOPLE. TO THE GOVERNMENT, revolutionists and NAR
00:39 26.01.2011
APPEAL TO RUSSIAN PEOPLE. TO THE GOVERNMENT, revolutionists and NAR
Leo Tolstoy
APPEAL TO RUSSIAN PEOPLE.
TO THE GOVERNMENT, revolutionary and the people.
you fight with the revolutionaries tricks, izvorotami and worst of all, such same and even worse atrocities, which they use against you. But of the two contending sides always wins not one that resourceful, smarter or meaner and cruel, but one that is closer to that goal to which mankind is moving.
True or false revolutionaries define the goals sought by, they tend to to some new device life, and you also want one thing: to stay in the best position where you are. And because you can not stand up against the revolution your banner of autocracy, albeit to constitutional amendments, and perverted Christianity, called Orthodoxy, albeit with patriarchy and all sorts of mystical interpretation. Outlived all that and can not be restored. Your salvation is not in the thoughts of such or any other election, and not in the machine-guns, guns and executions, and to acknowledge his sin before the people and try to redeem him, something smooth over it, while you are still in power. Put before the people ideals of justice, goodness and truth are taller and fairer than those that expose your opponents.
Take only what you owe do occupy the seat of government, and still have time, put the task of implementing a real national benefit, and instead of fear and anger that you experience now, you will learn the joy of closeness, unity with the one hundred millionth of the Russian people, learn the feeling of love and gratitude This gentle people, who can not remember your sins, and will love you for the good that you do it, just as he likes and now that those freed him from slavery.
Remember that you are not the kings, ministers, not the senators and governors, and people, and in doing so, you, instead of grief, despair and fear, learn the joy of forgiveness and love.
But for that to happen, you have no externally and as a means of salvation, but honestly, seriously all the heart and soul to surrender to the case, and you will see how hot it is reasonable and consonant activity will manifest itself in the top layers of society by putting up the best people from all classes by abolishing and stripped of all meaning the people who are now stirring up Russia. Do it, and destroy all those horrible, brutal elements of revenge, anger, greed, envy, vanity, ambition and, most importantly, ignorance, and who now stand outside, and infect, worried and plagued by the Russian people, and where you are to blame.
Yes, before you government people, now only two options: a fratricidal carnage and the horrors of revolution and, moreover, nevertheless inevitable, ignominious destruction, or the peaceful exercise of the eternal and the just demand of the people and an indication of other Christian peoples of the ways and means the destruction of the injustice from which for so long and severely affected people.
outlived outlived or not that form of social organization in which you use the power until you use it has to make use of it than the way to increase tenfold the evil that has already been committed by you and the hatred to you, you have already created a people, and on to make great good thing not only for its people, but for all mankind. If this form is outlived, then let it be the last act of an act of goodness and truth, not lies and cruelty.
So I told the government people.
revolutionary, all intellectuals, people who are from the world's peace-loving constitutionalists to the most militant revolutionaries who want to replace the existing government authority to another differently organized and composed of other persons authority, I would say so.
you, the revolutionaries of all shades and denominations, believe the existing regime harmful and in different ways - the device allowed and unauthorized government assembly, drafting, printing articles, speeches, strikes, strikes, demonstrations and, in the end all, as a natural and inevitable consequence - the basis of all these actions - murder, killings, armed insurrections, and want to try to replace the existing authorities of the other, by a new.
Despite what you all do not agree among themselves on what should be the new power, you are to implement the proposed each of your party devices do not stop before any crimes: murders, bombings, killings, internecine war.
You do not have enough contemptuous words to express your condemnation and contempt for those governmental entities that are fighting with you. But all the cruel acts of government individuals when they fight with you make them, in their eyes, justified by the fact that doing them, they are all from the king to the last policeman, brought up in an infinite respect for established and hallowed tradition of the old and the order is quite sure that protecting this order, they do the same, which require them to millions of people who recognize the legitimacy of the existing order and their positions. So the moral responsibility for their violent cause lies not on them alone, and decomposes on many faces. You, people of different professions - doctors, teachers, technicians, students, professors, newspapermen, girl student, railroad workers, lawyers, merchants, landowners - still working have nothing to do with the management of their professions, no one except themselves, is not intended to and not recognized, suddenly sure to determine which device is needed for Russia, for the sake of the future social structure that defines each of you in its own way on some self takes all the responsibility you have committed the most heinous acts: explode, ruining the murder, execution.
killed thousands of people, are in despair, angry, ozvereny all the Russian people. And all for what? All this for what is among a small handful of people, barely one ten-thousandth all the people, some people decide that the best unit of the Russian state to a continuation of the council, which met recently, others, that we need other people think with common, secret, equal, etc., and still others that need a republic, the fourth - not simple, but a socialist republic. And for this You excite internecine war.
You say that you are doing it for the people that your main goal - the benefit of the people. But one hundred millionth people for whom you do it, and does not ask you about it and does not need all of what you are trying to achieve such evil means. Nation does not need all of you and always looked and looked at you and can not watch except on the very parasites that these or other ways of consuming it from his writings and vitiate his life. Just imagine it is clear that the one hundred millionth Russian agricultural people, which, strictly speaking, one is the body of the Russian people, and realize что вы все, и профессора, и фабричные рабочие, и врачи, и техники, и газетчики, и студенты, и помещики, и курсистки, и ветеринары, и купцы, и адвокаты, и железнодорожники, the same ones who are so concerned about its good that you are only harmful parasites of the body, pull it out of its juices, rotting on it and pass it its decay.
only vividly imagine the millions of ever-patient work and keep on their shoulders the rest of your unnatural, artificial life and think for these people all these reforms, which you are seeking, and you will see how alien this nation all that what you want though for his benefit. He has other problems, he further sees you coming he purpose, it expresses consciousness of his appointment, not newspaper articles, and throughout his life a hundred million people.
But no, you can not understand this, you are firmly convinced that this rude people do not have any of their bases and that it would be a great benefit, if you enlighten him of the latest articles, that you have read, and he did the same pitiful, helpless and depraved creature, as you can.
you say what you want just the device life, but you can only exist when wrong, unfair device life. Establish truly fair life of a device in which there is no place for people suck someone else's work - and you all, landlords, merchants, doctors, professors, lawyers, teachers, and also factory, manufacturers, breeders and technology, teachers, manufacturers of guns, tobacco, vodka, mirrors, velvet, etc., together with government people - all of you die of starvation.
you not only need to really just the device life, but for you there's nothing more dangerous than such a device in which people will have all the same work useful to all working people.
Just stop deceiving ourselves, and just look at the place that you occupy in Russian people, and that you are doing and you will be clear that your fight with the government is fighting two parasites on the healthy body and that people are equally harmful both sides Borja. And why talk about their interests, not the people, do not lie, talking about it and leave it alone. Fight with the government, if you can not to resist this, but know that you are fighting for themselves and not for the people, and that coercive control is not only there is nothing noble and good, but that This struggle is a very stupid and harmful and, more importantly, immoral business.
Your work is aimed, as you say, improving the overall situation of people. But to the human condition has improved, it is necessary that the people themselves have become better. That same truism as that to warmed jar of water, it is necessary to all drops her warmed up. For the same people to become better, it is necessary that they are increasingly paying attention to himself, to his inner life. External same social activities, especially the social struggle, always distracts attention from the inner life, and therefore, always inevitably corrupting people, lowers the level of public morality, as happened everywhere, and as we have seen a remarkable extent in Russia now. Lowering the same level public morality is doing what most immoral of society, more and more stand up, and installed an immoral public opinion, allowing and even endorsing a crime, robbery, corruption and even murder. And installed a vicious circle, due to public combating the worst part of the society with fervor gave appropriate their low level of morality, social activities, this activity is attracting to itself even the worst elements of society. And morality is increasingly reduced, and the heroes of the time are the most immoral people: Danton, Marat, Napoleon, Talleyrand, Bismarck. So that participation in social activities and fighting is not only sublime, useful, good job, as usual think and say those involved in this struggle, but on the contrary, it's certainly stupid, harmful and immoral thing.
Think about it, especially You young people have not yet Trapped in the sticky mud of political activity, shake off that terrible hypnosis, under which you are, freed from the lies of an imaginary service to the people in whose name do you think all the permitted, think, more importantly, about the higher properties of their souls, requiring you to not equal, secret, etc., are not armed uprisings or constituent assembly, and similar stupidities and cruelties, and not just one thing: your good and truthful life.
For your own good and truthful life, you must first of all do not cheat yourself, do not think that, returning to their small passions - vanity, ambition, envy, bravado, desire to find a solution to their idle forces or wish to improve their personal situation, you serve people and look at yourself and try to correct their own weaknesses and be better. Bewley you want to think about public life, then think first about his sin before the people and try to as little as possible to enjoy his work and if you do not help him, then, at least, not to be confused, do not muddy it does not do the terrible crime which make many of you - to deceive, annoy him, calling him the looting and riots, ends always only suffering and even greater enslavement this nation. Are complex and difficult circumstances, among which we now live in Russia, require you right now is not news in the newspaper, not speeches in the meetings, not walking on the streets with pistols, not dishonest disturbance peasants to release themselves from responsibility, and an open, rigorous attitude towards themselves, to their lives, which is one of our power and improving which one can improve the overall condition of the people.
the people, by which I mean the whole Russian people, mainly working on agricultural people, one of which is kept on the writings of the lives of all others, I would say the following.
you, the Russian working people, primarily agricultural, farmers, are now in Russia in especially difficult circumstances. No matter how hard you had to live on low ground at high taxes and fees and the wars that undertaken a government, you have lived until recently, believing the king, in what is without a king and his government can not live, and humbly to obey the government.
No matter how badly you rule the Tsarist government, you meekly obeyed him as long as it was one thing. But now, when to do that one part of the people revolted and ceased to obey the king's government, began to fight with him, when in many locations instead of one government became two, and each requires his obedience, then you can no longer, as before, without distinction, whether good or bad to control you Government meekly obey to what is, and must choose which of the two obeyed. What do you do? Not the tens of thousands of workers, who are scurrying around and rushing to the cities, and you, great, truly, one hundred millionth agricultural people?
old imperial government tells you: "Do not listen to the rebels: they promise a lot, but to deceive you. Stay true to me, and I meet all your needs. " The rebels say: "Do not believe the king Government: how it has always bothered you, and will continue to torment. Join us, help us and we'll make you the same as in the most liberal states, government. Then you yourself will choose their rulers, themselves govern themselves and themselves to fix all their needs. "
What do you do?
Support the old government? But the old government has long promised to address your needs, not only does not help them, but only adds to your major needs; need land, tax-paying, soldier.
stick to the rebels? The rebels promise that will suit you the same elected government, as in most free states. But wherever arranged such elected governments in most liberal states, both in French and American republics exactly the same way as we have not alleviated the main needs of the people: all, like us, and even more than we have land in the hands of the rich, and just like us, without asking people obkladyvayut his taxes and duties, and, as we are not asking him to contain the troops and declare war and fight when necessary those reigns, And besides, the new government is not established, and yet nuizvestno what it is.
But not enough that you do not stick to the benefits of this or that government: you and can not in good conscience before God to do so. Defend the old government - it means doing what has been done recently in Odessa, Sevastopol, Kyiv, Riga, Caucasus, Moscow: catch, kill, hang, burn alive, to execute, shoot on the streets, killing children, women. Assayed as the revolutionaries - it means do the same thing: to kill people, blow, burn, loot, fight with the soldiers, executed, hanged.
And that is why you need a Christian worker, now that tsarist government is calling you to fight against the brothers and to the same name you revolutionaries, you are no longer to their advantage, and to God and his conscience clear needed and should be only one thing: do not bother either to the old nor the new government not to participate in non-Christian affairs neither one nor the other.
And not to participate in the affairs of the old government - it means: do not serve in the army, the police, guards, policemen, constables, not to serve in any government agencies, authorities, zemstvos, meetings, thoughts. Not to participate in the affairs of the same revolutionary means: do not make meetings, unions, strikes, do not burn and do not ruin other people's houses, not to join the armed uprising.
above you has now become two mutually hostile governments, and both urge you to evil, non-Christian cases. What do you do otherwise, it does not renounce all government?
say that it is difficult or even impossible to live without a government, but you, the Russian workers, particularly agricultural people know that when you live in the villages of peaceful, hardworking rural life, taking advantage on an equal ground and solving their social world affairs, the government you do not need to happen.
you need for the government, but the government does not need you, Russian agricultural people. And because in the present difficult circumstances, when the equally bad to join one or another government, you, the Russian agricultural people, and reasonably and charitably refuse to obey any government.
But if this is true for agricultural people, what do the factory, the factory workers who in many lands more than farmers, and whose lives are all at the mercy of the government?
same thing as rural workers: do not obey any government and by all means try to toss and turn to farming life.
Just stop, urban working people, as well as rural obey the government, to serve him - and destroy the power of government, and the destruction of this power by themselves annihilated the conditions of slavery, where you live, because these conditions are only supported coercive power of government. A coercive power compose yourself. Only this government imposes duties on imported and exported goods, but it collects duties on goods of domestic production, but the government government establishes laws that support the monopoly of private individuals and land ownership, but this authority, disposing of his army, which you yourself deliver it, keeps you in constant dependence and submission from himself and his assistants - the rich people.
Just stop, urban working people, as well as rural, to obey the government, and you, the city workers will no longer be taken from owners of the factories the conditions that they will put you but you yourself will put them to their conditions, or will start their artel institutions necessary for the people objects, or will move in free land to natural farming life.
"But if you do not obey the government will not give taxes and soldiers, strangers come people and you will win, "say there are those people who want to rule over you. Do not believe it. Only live, recognizing obscheyu ground, not giving the soldiers and not paying taxes, except those who volunteer will be given to public affairs, and peacefully resolving their differences the world - and other nations looking at this your good life, do not go to conquer you, and if they will, then, upon learning this your good life, pereymut it and, instead of fighting with you, to join you. After all, people, just like you, have suffered and are now suffering from governments, from the struggle between the various governments themselves - the struggle, both military and commercial, and industrial estates, and from the struggle and the different parties. In all Christian nations is an inside job whose main goal - freedom from government.
"The Government must, you can not live without a government," people say, especially convinced of this now, when people come in turmoil. Who these people are so concerned about the integrity of the government? These are the people who live and labor of the people, conscious of his sin, feared his accusation and hope that the associated interests of unity government the power to protect their lie. These people are the government really want to, but not you, the people. Government has always been to have only the weight, but now, with his bad management causing a riot and the separation of the two governments, it has become apparent, and a great sin, from which you need for your physical and spiritual benefits must be abandoned.
immediately if you have, the Russian working people, now freed by obedience to any government, or have you, the Russian working people still suffer and to suffer from people old or the new government could be, and from governments of other nations, to you, the working people of the Russian people, now do nothing more as to cease to obey the government and begin to live without him.
If you do, both rural and urban workers, and will at first suffer for their defiance of both the old and from the new government, as well as internal disagreements that might arise between you, it still all those disasters that may occur from these reasons, there is nothing in comparison with those disasters and suffering that you now carry on the government and that you will have to move if you obey, one or another government will be involved in those killings, executions, mezhduusobiya that occur now and will continue to be committed Fighting Governments, unless you stop them with his lack of participation in them.
Just let yourself to what you require from and called for both government just join, supporting the old government in the fight against the revolutionaries, participating in the armed forces, police, the gathering of hundreds of black or supporting the revolutionaries, Taking part in the strikes, destruction, armed rebellion or in any whatsoever unions, elections, and thoughts - and you, except that you take a lot of sin per capita, and suffer many things, do not have time to look like one thing or another government, the one that will prevail, at least you and helped his triumph, will delay to you again that noose of slavery, in which you lived and still live.
Just do not give in and do not obey neither the one nor the other, and you get rid of your disaster and will be free.
from the present difficult circumstances for you, the Russian working people, there is only one way out: the rejection of obedience to whatever was coercive power, humble and gentle, experienced violence, but did not participate in them.
Exit this simple and easy and will certainly lead to good. But in order to you can do so, you must recognize the power of God and His law.
"endure to the end shall be saved." And your salvation in your hands.
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