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Socialism

Also known as socialists, socialist revolutionaries.

Socialism appears in the monastery debate as a modern political current that Miusov and Ivan connect to religious questions. Miusov uses it to test whether talk of the Church absorbing the State is a practical program or a distant ideal. Ivan replies that liberals, dilettanti, and even foreign police confuse socialist and Christian hopes in different ways.

II-VII. A Young Man Bent On A Career

Rakitin takes up similar political language while attacking Ivan: he imagines a career with a liberal and atheistic magazine, a small socialist tint, and profitable caution beneath the rhetoric.

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