The Underground Man is the retired civil servant, St. Petersburg [1]. They are not currently a candidate for elected office and have not filed in any 2026 race [2].
A former clerk of the eighth rank who has retired on a small inheritance and now lives in a corner of St. Petersburg he describes as a mousehole. He has held a longstanding grudge against a fellow officer who once moved him aside in a tavern without acknowledging the slight. [1][2]
The Underground Man rejects rational self-interest as a basis for human conduct and has argued that a person may act against his own advantage simply to assert that he is not a piano key. [2]
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