Marxism and violence as acceptable

 

In the Marxian perspective,” Camus wrote sweepingly, “a hundred thousand deaths is a small price to pay for the happiness of hundreds of millions” (Camus 1991, 130). Marxists think this, Camus asserted, because they believe that history has a necessary logic leading to human happiness, and thus they accept violence to bring it about.

Communists, aim at a wholesale transformation of society, which must necessarily be violent

 In The Rebel Camus insisted that both Communism’s appeal and its negative features sprang from the same irrepressible human impulse: faced with absurdity and injustice, humans refuse to accept their existence and instead seek to remake the world. Validating revolt as a necessary starting point,

 The metaphysical need that leads to Communism’s terror and Gulag is universal: all the better  we can better resist it in ourselves as well as others.