
Albert Camus – The Rebel – Part 3
Revolution and Ideology
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Is This a Low Key Critique of the Dialectic as Well?
Revolution, in the dilemma into which it has been led by its bourgeois opponents and its nihilist supporters, is nothing but slave. Unless it changes its principles and its path, it can have no other final result than servile rebellions obliterated in blood or the hideous prospect of atomic suicide. And this leads us to camu's best critique of marxism, in my opinion, in sino read it. He says, how could a so called scientific socialism conflict to such a point with fact? The answer is easy. It was not. On the contrary, its defeat resulted from a method ambiguous enough to wish to be simultaneously determinate, determinous and prophetic,. dialectic and
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