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> He's most famous book is basically "don't read western philosophy cause you'll start murdering people

huh? Isn't anticolonialism usually not a big fan of western philosophy? I mean it seems to me quite a reasonable conclusion of some anticolonialist theories that Western Philosophy supports murder if not actually forcing it.

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Western philosophy at the time ended slavery, serfdom and challanged religion and god-given right to rule.

All of which Dostoyevsky tried to defend.

Don't get me wrong - early western democracies weren't perfect or even close. But it was still an enormous improvement over what came before.

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