Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
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🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Corey Mohler (from Existential Comics) returns to the show, this time to discuss the life, religion, politics, art, and psychology of the 19th century Russian literary giant Fyodor Dostoevsky - one of the greatest novelists of all time and the author of Crime and Punishment, The Brother Karamazov, The Idiot, Notes from the Underground, and many more!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian in his view is someone who totally dissolves power and it's like |
| 0:06.3 | He almost thought through Christian enlightenment you would achieve a sort of communism because Christians the monk |
| 0:11.3 | Gives up all his worldly possessions and treats all his all of humanity as a brotherhood, right? |
| 0:16.6 | So he thought almost you would |
| 0:18.6 | dissolve power structures through Christianity not through socialism |
| 0:22.3 | So I think his critique of the right would be sort of yeah, this kind of might makes right |
| 0:28.3 | Power-worshipping people are he says those are not Christians. Those are not real conservatives and those are those don't have the best interests of the people at heart |
| 0:37.4 | So yeah, I mean then the fascism would be the absolute culmination of that |
| 0:41.7 | But I don't think he had critiques of that because you don't really he didn't really see that kind of thing |
| 0:44.9 | I mean he was a nationalist |
| 0:47.6 | So more more close to the fascists in a lot of ways, but just not that kind of nationalist, you know, he was a pacifist as well |
| 0:54.2 | I thought war was anti-Christian obviously, which I mean it should be you would think but |
| 1:00.7 | Obviously not in the real world, but yeah, I would love to get his take on modern-day US white evangelical Christians |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah, it's amazing to think I think this is one of the reasons why you read dust West in and these older conservatives is because they're right today |
| 1:13.4 | So intellectually bankrupt, you know |
| 1:15.1 | You want to like study your enemies and understand what they think it's like who do you even read? |
| 1:18.7 | Exactly. I know it's hard to get a grip on conservative. They're just totally reactionary idiots most of them the big ones |
| 1:25.2 | So it's like it's nice to go back and read these people who actually had a deep understanding of human psychology and society and |
| 1:30.7 | Had it a much different view, you know 100% like yeah, who's a kusa conservative intellectual fucking? |
| 1:36.1 | I really do that. I really believe in that. Yeah, exactly |
| 1:43.5 | Hello everybody and welcome back to rev left radio on today's episode |
| 1:47.9 | I have back on the show a friend of the show friend of mine Corey molar from existential comics |
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