The Foundation Pit

Main Ideas

• Critique of the utopian ideals of socialism and communism
• Bureaucratization and dehumanization of society
• Futility and absurdity of labor under a totalitarian regime
• Loss of individuality and human dignity
• Tragedy and suffering of ordinary people in the construction of a new society
• The concept of collective labor and its impact on the individual
• The search for the meaning of life and human happiness under ideological pressure