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Dostoevsky's Utopie
Dostoevsky was such a genius. He had everything that was wrong with communism figured out even before it started. His main character in his novel possessed by what's essentially the communist iteology, and he's very effective at moving it forward. Dostoevsky lays out brilliantly exactly the catastrophic sequences of that, both personally and socially. And he did this, like, thirty years before the russian revolution. It's just, it's uncanny. I don't know where the hell that guy was from. Must have been his epilepsy, you know....