ABSTRACT
Albert Camus’s philosophical ideas were clearly related to his politics, which he expressed by his early newspaper essays, his commitment to the Resistance Movement, and his highly personal and public sense of his own North African colony. Mustapha Khayati’s political writings focus not just on the events of Paris in May ’68 and on Marxist theory more broadly, but unlike other Situationists, he applies Situationism to contexts outside of Europe. More specifically, much of his political writing is devoted to examining class struggle in North Africa toward a theory of underdevelopment from a Situationist perspective. Peasants, Khayati posits, fight for independence only to be politically dominated and economically exploited by a new regime. Khayati also laments the role of the USSR in influencing national liberation movements. The Russian Revolution, Khayati observes, soon turned into a counterrevolution, begetting a dictatorship which claims to be Communist.
