Camus rejected Marxist historical inevitability in favor of perpetual rebellion.

Evidence

For Marxists, human beings are destined to progress through predefined stages of history towards a final socialist paradise. The road will be long, but we are bound to get there, and all will be perfect when we do. Camus disagreed on two counts: he did not think that history led to a single inevitable destination, and he did not think there was such a thing as perfection. As long as we have human societies, we will have rebellions. Each time a revolution overturns the ills of a society, a new status quo is created, which then develops its own excesses and injustices. Each generation has a fresh duty to revolt against these, and this will be the case forever. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 809

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisply frames Camus’s theory of rebellion as against Marxist teleology — core orientation material.
• XREF: Camus’s anti-teleology resonates with later post-Marxist thought and with existentialist emphasis on freedom over determinism. — connects to: Camus defined rebellion as setting limits against tyranny rather than pursuing utopia. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 810; Gramsci rejected the deterministic Marxism that forbid revolution before capitalism developed. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 74

Broader Connections

• Camus defined rebellion as setting limits against tyranny rather than pursuing utopia. #expands (0.95) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 810
• Gramsci rejected the deterministic Marxism that forbid revolution before capitalism developed. #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 74