no right to recommend anything
except the struggle against war, and
the very long effort required for
the establishment of a true interna–
tional democracy." And to the ac–
cusation that his was an intellec–
tual's position, and one which ob–
jectively favored the bourgeois,
Camus retorted: "We have come
to an impasse in history where
complicity is universal. You Com–
munists not only do not escape this
servitude, but you don't do any–
thing in order to escape it. My
only advantage is that, on my part,
I shall have made such an ef–
fort, and pleaded, as was my duty
as a writer, that the horrible suf–
ferings of men be decreased,
right
now."
To express his dislike of any
form of Nietzschean
Amor Fati,
to
make public his rejection of all
extreme solutions; to take the risk
of being called a "radical-socialist"
(which, among French intellectu–
als, is not a compliment); to sym–
pathize with Sartre's RDR as a
way of not conforming to mass
politics; to give his support to the
idea of a European Federation and
a World Parliament, these are
things that Albert Camus is willing
to do, in order to show that he does
not shirk responsibility. But he
won't go much farther. He doesn't
see why he should.
In a private conversation, talk–
ing about
The Plague,
he said: "I
wish I could get rid of the theme
of the extreme situation. When I
was a boy, my ambition was to
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