Thoughts on him? How can we reconcile his philosophy with leftism?

Thoughts on him? How can we reconcile his philosophy with leftism?

He was a communist/anarchist.

A bad one.

Camus was pretty explicitly a leftist, he fought with the French resistance for christ's sake.

The problem here is that Camus is a genius of literature and not of philosophy. He works in the tradition of existentialism, and his works have philosophical >implyings (and not the other way around, as with Sartre).

Concerning '56 – the reason for the above mentioned's split – he was right, and Sartre was wrong from a moral perspective, yet Sartre was (however brutal this is to state) right from a realpolitik perspective (looking at the "big picture" of "really existing socialism" of the 20th century).

It's a shame really. And a shame also, about Camus' death, that silly fool.

Still, one gets the impression, that if Camus were to live longer he would have taken the Orwellian (meaning the author, not the phrase stemming from his name) road: abandonment of communism.

You don't, if you do you get Rebel.

Also: favorite Camus novel/short story thread.
Mine: The Renegade; The Silent Men

SARTRE
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Just in case

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Annoying, overrated fuck

Idolised by teenage communists and clueless student women

Similar to Che Guevara really, although at least he did something

Orwell didn't abandon communism though.


L'hote and the silent men.

opinion discarded

He did tbf

He was so butthurt about Stalinism he made a list of people he believed to be sympathetic to USSR

Orwell died a DemSoc but everyone gets soft with age.

Anyone who thinks Orwell abandoned socialism is a stupid tankie fuck

1984 is a "degenerate worker's state" just as Animal Farm is the "revolution betrayed". Orwell has always been one icepick short of abandoning Trotskyism.

He was not a communist. Got seriously disillusioned by the Soviet Union. Read the Rebel he's very critical of Marxism (in what I think is a fair way as a communist.) You could definitely call him an anarchist though.

Camus death is one of the great tragedies of the 20th century. Truly a fittingly meaningless death for someone who wrote about the absurd.

His criticisms of Marxism are very accurate. We should try to avoid falling into the ends justify the mean mindset again, it caused a huge amount of suffering. It is extremely difficult not to think this way though.

The fall is my personal favorite of Camus's work but if you asked me to explain why i probably couldn't.

kys you illiterate faggot. Camus is one of the 20th centuries great authors.

This is a cliched answer, but the stranger.

I'm pretty sure he meant socialism where workers's councils actually have a say and not reform through liberal democracy.


He made a list of stalinists for a propaganda bureau so they wouln't get hired to make propaganda. He didn't get anyone jailed.

*Marxism-Leninism

Basically this existentialism and leftism being combined together is bound to result in failure

Says a lot about how shit the 20th century was then

Nice theory and all but one thing
Individualism is the best expression of collectivism, solely because people will group together when its best for them, instead of for whatever reason and while sacrificing free will.
Prove me wrong.

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