Wasn't Camus a COMMUNIST?

[MoonRiver]

And didn't * say he learned a lot from reading Camus?

Inquiring minds want to know wtf he learned (or is that word an oxymoron in this instance?).

[CollegeDUer]

1. Not quite

But still an antiwar firebrand and close to socialist at least.

As well as an atheist existentialist who believed there was no "ultimate truth" to life.

[Mass]

13. delete

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. Worse! . . . FRENCH!

[C_U_L8R]

7. Even Worse.. EXISTENTIALIST !!

then again everything about the Bush
regime reeks of Absurdism.

[Mabus]

3. He joined the French Communist Party in 1934 but quit in '36

Camus joined the French Communist Party in 1934, apparently for concern over the political situation in Spain (which eventually resulted in the Spanish Civil War) rather than support for Marxist-Leninist doctrine. In 1936, the independence-minded Algerian Communist Party (PCA) was founded. Camus joined the activities of Le Parti du Peuple Algérien, which got him into trouble with his communist party comrades. As a result, he was denounced as a Trotskyite, and quit the party in 1936. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#Early_years

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Well, if he starts reading Sartre, Langston Hughers or Richard Wright,

to name a few Communist writers, he should be investigated by HUAC.

[flyingfysh]

5. Sartre was a Marxist, Camus was not

Camus objected in a famous essay about Sartre's excusing human rights violations by the Communists. I forget the name of the essay.

[MoonRiver]

8. Well, I guess we can approve *'s reading list then!

Of course, he probably didn't even read one of the dust covers. :D

[Mass]

14. delete

[ashling]

6. Hie Did say

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

[uppityperson]

9. Big question is, how did Mr.bush pronounce it?

Kay-mus?
Ka-mu?

[C_U_L8R]

10. Like Imus

haha

[MoonRiver]

11. He actually managed to get that one right.

Laura must have been coaching him all night. :eyes:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. He pronounced "Camus" correctly, BUT, sadly,

he did not attempt "existentialist."

[Cleita]

15. I think Bushie would find a more kindred spirit and

ideological camradie reading "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler. After all his administration is following the ideology set forth in it in many ways, the divide and conquer strategy, the propaganda techniques, racial hatred, the micromanaging of it's citizens lives.