What did he mean by this, /lit/? Is it that every major person

>>9309907
Most successful people are mentally unwell.

There's a somewhat well-known redpill for ya

>>9309907

No, just socialists.

>>9309907
No, just radical atheist socialists

>thought this would be about demons, madmen and a city full of scum, villainy, decay, sex and murder
>it's a political comedy

Dosto tricked me again.

>>9309907
It was a critique of Europeanism and it's influence on the minds of Russians. It's not so much about socialists specifically, it is a critique of intellectuals. They are people who are not grounded in reality and will follow their ideology to radical destructive conclusions. The demons are not the people but the ideas that drive them. These ideas are analogous to the demons Jesus drove into the pigs which led them to their death.

>>9310023
It is about all those things though