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To: jrhana who wrote (343377)	1/16/2010 10:24:32 AM
From: skinowski	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793917

I'm not sure where you got the idea that Dostoevsky was a leftist: No J., he wasn't, of course. Never meant to imply anything of this sort. To the contrary, if more people would read his work more carefully, they might have saved themselves from plenty of costly collectivist leftist blunders. For me he was the bizarre product of the very bizarre society that was late tsarist Russia Dostoevsky (1821-81) was a conflicted man. But in many ways every society can be called "very bizarre". Just look at our "gubmint" going nuts, obviously lost and confused, convinced that spending huge amounts of money which they don't have (and never will) is an "investment" and will solve the world's ills. What about our intellectuals, most of whom are simply parroting their chosen party lines? What about all those 21 century religious wars out there, threatening to move up to WMD's? As far as being crazy goes, old Russian anarchists couldn't hold a darn candle to many of our best and brightest contemporaries.