Surrealist Revolution vs. Marxist Revolution

“One of the fundamental theses of surrealism is, in fact, that there is no salvation. The advantage of revolution was not that it gives mankind happiness, ‘abominable material comfort.’ On the contrary, according to [Andre] Breton, it should purify and illuminate man’s tragic condition. World revolution and the terrible sacrifices it implies would only bring one advantage: ‘preventing the completely artificial precariousness of the social condition from screening the real precariousness of the human condition.’

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“The surrealists were more different from Marx than were reactionaries like Joseph de Maistre, for example. The reactionaries made use of the tragedy of existence to reject revolution–in other words, to preserve a historical situation. The Marxists made use of it to justify revolution–in other words, to create another historical situation. Both make use of the human tragedy to further their pragmatic ends. But Breton made use of revolution to consummate the tragedy.” – Camus, The Rebel