Neither victim nor executioner
Neither victim nor executioner ( French Ni Victimes, ni bourreaux ) is an essay by the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus . He appeared in Combat on November 30, 1946 ; It was first published in German in 1984 in the magazine Inkfass .
In eight short essays, Camus analyzes the political situation towards the end of the Second World War , the struggle between communism and capitalism. He is thinking about a new world order in which everyone should take responsibility, even across national borders. He also criticized the undemocratic voting procedures of the UN shortly after it was founded.
At the beginning Camus writes that the prevailing worldviews, capitalism and communism , were utopias. Both would legitimize the killing of people for the sake of a better future, which is unacceptable.
Camus sees two possibilities for a new world order: Either through the total dictatorship of a state, or through total democracy and the full recognition of the UN, without the veto right of individual states and the same right for all. But there should also be the possibility of condemning those states that do not adhere to the rules set by the UN.
The 1996 edition of Diogenes contains the essay and the appendix "Albert Camus today" by Heinz Robert Schlette, an imaginary conversation between Albert Camus and Hermann Hesse by Hans Mayer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ also published in the anthology Actuelles I. Écrits politiques (Chroniques 1944–1948) , Éditions Gallimard 1948
- ↑ Ink Bottle - The Magazine for the Overstretched Intellectual , No. 11, Zurich 1984, pp. 83–115 (quoted from Hannes Denck ( memento of the original from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet Checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
