Of Socialism, Violets, and Asphalt

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959, tr. Ryan Bloom, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010, p. 61:

Socialism, according to Zochtchenko, will be when violets grow on asphalt.

Bernie Sanders take note.

Translator's footnote: Mikhail Zochtchenko (1895-1962), Soviet writer and humorist persecuted by Stalin.

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