Re:Why did Dostoyevsky write Crime and Punishment?
by nerdponx on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:30AM
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If anything, the fact that he's such a good propagandist should be an _endorsement_ of his literary opinion, evil notwithstanding. He clearly knows how to communicate well!
Re:Why did Dostoyevsky write Crime and Punishment?
by oh_sigh on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:37PM
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The marchers weren't necessarily right. How many of those people would have been marching against a totally just, necessary war? Probably many of them. Many Americans didn't want the US to get embroiled in WWII, even after Dec 7th
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lost-in-translat...
And the article you cite is by David Remnick who was instrumental on spreading Iraq war lies at the New Yorker. Should we trust him now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Remnick
"A lot of the people who made those mistakes are still occupying prominent positions, their credibility undamaged thanks to a new legend best articulated by New Yorker editor David Remnick, who later scoffed, “Nobody got that story completely right.”
Nobody except the record number of people who marched against the war on February 15, 2003 — conservative estimates placed it between six and ten million worldwide (I marched in D.C.). Every one of those people was way ahead of Remnick."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq...