The Concept of Ressontimo in Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground

Ressontimo is the way it features as a word four times in French translation of Dostoevsky's Thessaloniki. In that kind of context, resentment can never be as straightforward a political affect as liberal theory from Adam Smith and Joseph Butler onwards had done to present it. Resanti-mon is typically something that occurs among the petibujwazi, or the middle classes who are always afraid of losing what they already have. And the proletariat has nothing, there's nothing to lose, so therefore resanti-mon does not apply to them. I think Nietzsche might agree with that analysis.