Albert Camus in " The Rebel " warns us about political idealism turned into MADNESS

At my age 76 I have seen any number of Marxist " vanguard " parties disintegrate or degenerate into wacky personality cults. Old leftists might recall the fate of the SWP and the SEP . ALL fresh ones have my blessings as the IDEA of a SANE SOCIETY as old as Plato's Republic will never go away. But LIFE has taught me the wisdom of KNOW THYSELF independence. I have been and remain an INDEPENDENT democratic socialist. I would like to pass into the GREAT BEYOND with a firmer hope in a BETTER WORLD. The FUTURE , of course, belongs to the young. Encouraging memories of THE PAST belong to the YOUNG AT HEART. WISDOM acquitted over TIME never grows stale. Over 50 years I retain the BRAIN TRUST that enlightened me by age 25. They range from hard core Marxists and Trotskyists to Norman Thomas socialists , to the varied Catholic Left. With especial fond appreciation of the HUMANIST OF THE ABSURD ,French writer and Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus. " The Rebel " warns us about political idealism turned into MADNESS .