Except he didn't. Sartre was a Marxist and was critical of Leninism, publicly attacking the Soviet Union's abuses of human rights and freedom. He was one the

Except he didn't. Sartre was a Marxist and was critical of Leninism, publicly attacking the Soviet Union's abuses of human rights and freedom. He was one the first to out the Soviet labor camps. Also, Sartre said that quote in the Anti-Semite and Jew in 1945, before most of his writing of the Soviet Union (not after).