Mine is the true revolutionary method If the people of the empire refuse as I believe they should refuse to render military service  if they decline to pay taxes to support that instrument of violence an army  the present system of government cannot stand  Tolstoy  RJ in the quote you gave Tolstoy answered No he ought not voluntarily to pay taxes  So he did support tax resistence  I think you have misunderstood the rest of the quote due to the nonstandard use or translation from Russian of the word resist which is understandable unless youd read the book  In The Kingdom the word resist means the use of violence or evil  Ie chapter  title THE DOCTRINE OF NONRESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE  Then he quote William Lloyd Garrison and Ballou  Q Ought the word nonresistance to be taken in its widest  sensethat is to say as intending that we should not offer  any resistance of any kind to evil  A No it ought to be taken in the exact sense of our Saviours  teachingthat is not repaying evil for evil We ought to  oppose evil by every righteous means in our power but not by  evil  The quote you gave RJ means that Tolstoy supports nonviolent tax resistance but not resistance such as mugging taxcollectors