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Camus’ Neither Victims nor Executioners: International Democracy and Dictatorship

The Power of Nonviolence Writings by Advocates of Peace The eleventh chapter of The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace  contains Albert Camus‘ 1946 essay Neither Victims nor Executioners. This week we discuss the fifth part of the essay, International Democracy and Dictatorship. Camus wrote this 16-page essay as World War II had just ended, and it seemed as if the Soviet Union and the United States were dragging the planet into the horrors of a third world war. Eleven years later, he would win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Camus returns to the theme that the world is interconnected and the national and the personal level:

There is no suffering, no torture anywhere in the world which does not affect our everyday lives.

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