The Enduring Relevance of Georges Sorel

A reading of an essay posted by the National Anarchist Tribal Alliance, which was what got me into national anarchism.

Georges Eugène Sorel, a French libertarian Marxist turned integral nationalist, known for his literary works, "Revolutions on Violence," "The Illusion of Progress," and "Social Foundations of Contemporary Economics," is extremely relevant today, in all the right ways. His criticism of certain sections of the left, who claimed to represent the proletariat, but, in actuality, weren't very proletarian at all, greatly predates the social problems the left faces today, all across the liberalised West.

Georges Sorel was an advocate of revolutionary violence, as a means of achieving workers' self-ownership, utilising political mythology to provide the workers with a mystical incentive to revolt against bourgeois modernity. The general strike, the heart of revolutionary syndicalism, would serve as the transition from one mode of production to another.

Unlike Marxists, he was an idealist, and opposed the scientism of many pro-labour theorists. It makes sense that Giovanni Gentile very much admired his human spirit for this.

The Enduring Relevance of Georges Sorel
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