Sartre’s not too bad. He’s an undialectical comrade, and he defended not promoting the notion that gulags were evil. He had some interesting philosophy. Obviously Israel shouldn’t have been supported, but the USSR supported them at the time and it wasn’t as blatant then.
He was very bad. He considered himself an “unprincipled Maoist”, then claimed he was always an anarchist, he opposed the Soviet Union, and that’s all before you get to the very VERY long list of issues with his political beliefs and philosophies.
That’s before getting into the bizarre justifications and desires of pedophilia.
I don’t think he opposed the USSR, he just wasn’t a tankie. He’s a bit all over the place, but I still have some respect for him. I still gotta read a lot of his stuff.
Sartre’s not too bad. He’s an undialectical comrade, and he defended not promoting the notion that gulags were evil. He had some interesting philosophy. Obviously Israel shouldn’t have been supported, but the USSR supported them at the time and it wasn’t as blatant then.
He was very bad. He considered himself an “unprincipled Maoist”, then claimed he was always an anarchist, he opposed the Soviet Union, and that’s all before you get to the very VERY long list of issues with his political beliefs and philosophies.
That’s before getting into the bizarre justifications and desires of pedophilia.
I don’t think he opposed the USSR, he just wasn’t a tankie. He’s a bit all over the place, but I still have some respect for him. I still gotta read a lot of his stuff.