Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
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Are You a Millionaire?
Dostoevsky says it would be more honest and better to become a millionaire by gambling off one rule a roll of the roulette table, than it would like the normal way. He's quit all his criticisms of socialism pretty much applye to capitalism too. Turning all human life into an economy is a mistake for him. The socialist and the novel were going to burn down the entire town and then rebuild it as a a socialist utopia - which didn't sound that great at the time.
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