An unflagging opponent of the FLN, the status quo, and independence under exclusively pied-noir rule, he advocated for Algeria only impossible compromises few wanted or believed in.
Always in the liberal style of immense moral decency, with exclusive reliance on strictly secular notions of justice.
Reading Chroniques algeriennes, 1939 -1958.
The contrast with Sartre is striking.
Where Camus stands for French patriotism and loyalty to French culture, Sartre is a traitor who joins the relentless propaganda of hatred of France, eurowhites, and the Occident, bitterly rejecting claims of grandeur and merit for the nation, its history, or its culture.
As is the contrast with the Stalinism of Merleau-Ponty.
Did Camus in a similarly quixotic fashion stand for the Republic in Spain?
Against the Nationalists for whom the Nazis and Italian Fascists were only allies of convenience?
Though nearly from the first day the Republic was a false flag for communists and anarchists who loathed it and did not want it to succeed?
No, no more than anyone in Algeria wanted his liberal utopianisms for that country to succeed.
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