Tag: WWII
Sept 24: Neither Victims nor Executioners by Camus, 1946
On Tuesday September 24th, we will be reading a classic pamphlet by Algerian-French militant, author, theorist and Nobel Prize awardee Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) titled “Neither Victims nor Executioners” (1946). This essay was first serialized in 1946 in the French Resistance newspaper Combat (founded, 1941) and addresses the issue of violence.
Camus’ anarchist orientation is well known: symptomatically, his major statement on anti-authoritarian ethics and social change, The Rebel (1951), was viciously attacked by French Communist Party ideologues such as Jean-Paul Sartre. The English-language version of Neither Victims nor Executioners first appeared in 1947 in the American anarchist journal, Politics (1944-1949). The pamphlet is an imprint of the pacifist-anarchist journal, Liberation (1956-1977).
The reading has been scanned and is available by scrolling down to the lower right side of this website.
As per usual, we are meeting at Camas Books and Infoshop, on unceded Lekwungen Territory, 2620 Quadra Street. The doors will be open at 6:50pm, with the discussion beginning at 7pm.
PS: I have always wanted to say “We are reading Camus at Camas!”