feb 1, 1928 - Tolstoy & Holst

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"In 1928, she read a total of 22 works by and about Tolstoy. One result of this intensive study was the article "Tolstoi, the Great Wrestler for Truth," published in Liberation, the journal of the minuscule League of Religious Anarcho-Communists. In this article, while granting that Karl Marx was "a scientific genius," Roland Holst argued that Tolstoy, the poetical genius, had also offered profound insights into the nature of modern society, particularly moral ideals that orthodox Socialists had never taken seriously. Asserting that a meaningful new agenda for the Socialist movement must address moral issues, she acknowledged Marx as a major force in Socialist ideology, but proposed that his ideas needed to be humanized and tempered by Tolstoy's ideals." (https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/roland-holst-henriette-1869-1952)