What I am about to say does not concern the ordinary man of our day. On the contrary, I have in mind the man who finds himself involved in today’s world, even at its most problematic and paroxysimal points; yet he does not belong inwardly to such a world, nor will he give in to it. He feels himself, in essence, as belonging to a different race from that of the overwhelming majority of his contemporaries. ~ Julius Evola.

Saturday 28 September 2013

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Egalitarian


Illustration for Dostoevsky's "The Possessed", Mstislav Dobuzhinsky [1913]


"Shigalyov is a man of genius. 
He has discovered " equality." 
He has it all so beautifully written down in his copy-book. 
He believes in espionage. 
He wants the members of society to control each other and be in duty bound to denounce their neighbours. 
Everybody belongs to all and all belong to each single one. 
All are  slaves and equals in slavery. As a final resort there will be calumny and murder; but the most important thing remains equality."

~ From The Possessed [ 1872]
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