/lit/ - Literature

>>528687
Camus was 100% individualist libertarian. You could call him post-left as he supported communes, syndics, as well siding with the US over the USSR, in opposition to the coercive state. Here is the whole passage to which you are referring:

On the very day when the Caesarian revolution triumphed over the syndicalist and libertarian spirits, revolutionary thought lost, in itself, a counterpoise of which it cannot, without decaying, deprive itself. This counterpoise, this spirit which takes the measure of life, is the same that animates the long tradition that can be called solitary thought, in which since time of the Greeks, nature has always been weighed against evolution. …The commune against the State, concrete society against absolutist society, deliberate freedom against rationalized tyranny, ***finally altruistic individualism against the colonization of the masses,*** are, then the contradictions that express once again the endless opposition of moderation to excess which has animated the history of the Occident since time of the ancient world.
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Rebellious thought has not ceased to deny this demand in the presence of bourgeois nihilism as well as of Caesarian socialism. Authoritarian thought, by means of three wars and thanks to the physical destruction of a revolutionary elite, has succeeded in submerging this libertarian tradition. But this barren victory is only provisional; the battle still continues.
- Albert Camus, The Rebel

>>458516
Well neither of us know what he would be thinking if he were alive.. and it's useless to speculate. However this does go strongly against the principles Camus espoused - indivdiualism, anti-statism, and the non-aggression axiom.

This bill itself is not that big of deal. The entire healthcare system in the US is statist-corporatist and this bill just further entrenches that. If the gov. stopped subsidizing the insurance industry it created, stopped limiting the number of med schools and students, stopped restricting immigrant doctors, and just got the hell out of the way - people would do exactly what they were doing before this mess.

see previous article eg, or:

http://libertariannation.org/a/f12l3.html

>>425900
That's a whole lot of butthurt you've got there in your unsupported assertions and childish generalizations there, mad anon.

On the very day when the Caesarian socialist revolution triumphed over the syndicalist and libertarian spirits, revolutionary thought lost, in itself, a counterpoise of which it cannot, without decaying, deprive itself. This counterpoise, this spirit which takes the measure of life, is the same that animates the long tradition that can be called solitary thought, in which since time of the Greeks, nature has always been weighed against evolution. …The commune against the State, concrete society against absolutist society, deliberate freedom against rationalized tyranny, finally altruistic individualism against the colonization of the masses, are, then the contradictions that express once again the endless opposition of moderation to excess which has animated the history of the Occident since time of the ancient world.
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Rebellious thought has not ceased to deny this demand in the presence of bourgeois nihilism as well as of Caesarian socialism. Authoritarian thought, by means of three wars and thanks to the physical destruction of a revolutionary elite, has succeeded in submerging this libertarian tradition. But this barren victory is only provisional; the battle still continues.
- Albert Camus, The Rebel