Reflections on the Guillotine Part 2
Channel: AudibleAnarchist
Date: 2021-02-18

"In this regard, we French, who are properly indignant uponseeing the oil king in Saudi Arabia preach international democracy and call in a butcher to cutoff a thief’s hand with a cleaver, live also in a sort of Middle Ages without even the consolationsof faith. We still define justice according to the rules of a crude arithmetic."


Full text http://libcom.org/library/reflections-guillotine-albert-camus

An essay written in 1957 arguing for the abolition of capital punishment, penned by Albert Camus the famous philosopher and libertarian socialist.