ABSTRACT
Karl Marx’s Russian contemporary, Fedor Dostoevskii, devoted his life to showing the folly of atheist efforts to achieve good by evil means, even if justified by a rationalist theory. In Crime and Punishment he depicted the drama of Raskol’nikov, a poor Russian student, who commits a crime for an allegedly noble cause. In The Possessed Dostoevskii depicted Russian revolutionaries as elitist, nihilist, and selfish individuals who have cut themselves loose from the religion, customs, and traditions of the Russian people. For what is going on is a revolt of Soviet intellectuals, especially Russian writers, against the suppression, with the help of the Marxist ideological monopoly, of religious, spiritual, mystical, occult, metaphysical, and generally idealistic ideas and viewpoints. The goal was the creation of a Russian-speaking but Marxist-thinking, transnational political entity, the so-called Soviet people. The result was as predictable as the one that issued from Marx’s economic “science”--a monstrosity.
