Mark and Louise Zwick, Houston Catholic Worker, Vol. XX, No. 3, May-June 2000, excerpt. “You ape, you assent to get the better of me. Hold your tongue… If there is no God, then I am God!” – — Fyodor Doestoevsky, The Demons “…It was Dostoevsky among the Russian novelists who struck the deepest chord with Dorothy during her… Read More Dostoevsky and Dorothy Day
Updated. What is the political Left hiding? “The French Revolution is the model”. In this long-overdue episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host Dr. James Lindsay takes you through the main body of the Manifesto of the Communist Party: preface, chapter one, and chapter two. In a subsequent episodes (Volume Two in this mini-series) he will… Read More There is a Spectre Haunting Europe and the UK Again
Philosopher Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (1870-1965): analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s complex views on socialism. While Dostoevsky supported just economic arrangements for workers and the peasantry, he also vehemently rejected the atheism and materialism that underpinned so many socialist ideals. Russia’s great writer was a prophet, right down to foreseeing famine, cannibalism and the deaths of 100 million people that would characterize twentieth-century… Read More Dostoevsky on Socialism
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