Sartre who, after the Second World War, became increasingly political and increasingly intolerant of what he saw as bourgeois or Western softness. Though this later Sartre had complicated relations with orthodox Marxism, his own brand of Marxist existentialism had oddly uncomplicated relations with Western capitalism: he simply believed that violent revolution should sweep capitalism away. He denounced the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1956, but argued that only socialism, not the bourgeois notions of justice and human rights, could condemn it. In 1961, in his introduction to Franz Fanon’s
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