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- Title
Armenians, Kurds, Turks and Tolstoy.
- Authors
Xulam, Kani
- Abstract
A student then made a comment that the Armenians didn't just want to free themselves from the Turks, but also wanted to establish a socialist paradise that would end poverty and stop the exploitation of man by man. "Oh, don't talk about that", Tolstoy interjected. In 1893, a group of Armenian university students visited Leo Tolstoy at his home. One man who was not present at Tolstoy's house, but was grappling with the same issue, and later would correspond with Tolstoy directly, was Mahatma Gandhi. A question is in order: If the Armenian students wanted to end the exploitation of man by man, why was it beneath them to practice Tolstoy's message, "the love of man by man", on Kurds--while also educating them, and thereby welcoming them into the Age of Enlightenment?.
- Subjects
KURDISTAN; TOLSTOY, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; ARMENIANS; KURDS; TURKS; PEASANTS; HUMAN beings
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Interview