Jean-Paul Sartre on bourgeois society

I understand Sartre's words not as a direct advocation of violence but as an ideological defending of the revolutionary cause.

"You have to understand that all revolutionaries understand today that there is no way of overthrowing modern society except by violence, for the very good reason that this society defends itself by repression and violence. I am defending a revolutionary cause because my personal goal, which is that of all those here, is to overthrow bourgeois society."

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[mrfreudable]

@buildingm Hello again. Funny how people can't see the terrible consequences of capitalism. And as you say, why does there have to be anything? "Existence precedes essence" -Sartre.

[fede2]

sartre was brilliant but alas a product of his age. it's paradoxical how despite his reverence for the individual and his critique of the marxian notion of class as ambiguous he maintained this rediculous binary thinking (i.e. "we are justified in doing this, they are not") as if bourgeois values and opression were relative to a formal ideological framework.

[mazingerZful]

the Sartre frog smoked too much weed before this interview: Communism -in a dictatorship or a democracy- has always been far more violent than the "bourgeois" society which he claimed to despise. And who were the readers of Sartre's novels, plays, etc.??? Bourgeois students!!!! That's right!!! The human frog would have died twice if he saw what happened in 1989-1990....thanks God the majority of humanity despises frog-communism.

[Jaygull]

@4zion4life Where the fuck are they?

[4zion4life]

Funny because today everyone is bourgeois, even the "poor" niggers in the ghettos with their $200 sneakers

[NearVSMello]

@craigpsimpson A revolution would put in its place a government which must rule but also must in the end be overthrown as surely the last.

[demoncoreftw]

SONG??

[invincibletruth1776]

@fede2 you are confusing the bourgeois as a particular known people, whereas he is talking more about getting rid of bourgeois practice and philosophy itself or the oppresive system.

[nerfmyaccount]

@klarkolofsson money being taken by force happens in every capitalist society that has ever existed, it is called taxation.

[GrayWatchman]

@buildingm Like Nietzsche, Sartre was fully aware of the murderous, oppressive, and totalitarian elements within the ideas which he supported. Essentially they both thought that was just the price to be paid.

[GrayWatchman]

@NJG0516 99% BALONEY  I knew guys who were saying that stuff in the sixties. "You say you want a revolution, well yah know... you can count me out!"

[dedbusted]

@GrayWatchman I agree completely.