Reflections on Violence, by Georges Sorel
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Reflections on Violence Georges Sorel, French syndicalist philosopher (1847-1922) This ebook presents «Reflections on Violence», from Georges Sorel. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents - About This Book - Introduction - Introduction To The First Publication - Class War And Violence - Violence And The Decadence Of The Middle Classes - Prejudices Against Violence - The Proletarian Strike - The Political General Strike - The Ethics Of Violence - The Ethics Of The Producers
Reflections on Violence, by Georges Sorel- Published on: 2015-11-30
- Released on: 2015-11-30
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15 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating Museum Piece By A Customer Sorel's most famous work is an interesting conflation of Marxism and XIXth century Romanticism. Like most socialist literature it idealizes the "worker" as an heroic figure standing astride history.The book advocates syndicalism (a system in which industrial workers' unions are the vehicles of political power), but it eschews the pseudoscientific rhetoric favored by Marx and Lenin. Sorel is not particularly strong on economics, and he knows it.What he does know is cultural history and he advocates political rebellion through violence and mythmaking. The book is essentially a broadside against Jaures and the calculative, creeping parliamentary socialism of fin de siecle France. He finds Jaures and his methods to be too meek and compromising. He characterizes parliamentarism (accurately) as a system of endless debate, dealmaking and "selling out". Sorel advocates revolutionary violence as a means to both power and the creation of a new mythic order. He correctly observes that the Jacobins were violent and bloody, yet they managed to create a mythology for the French Revolution which still held a strong cultural resonance in his day.Direct action, mythmaking and ruthless bloodshed were the means Sorel recommended for revolution. His ideas went largely unacted upon in France, but the anarchosyndicalists of Spain took him quite seriously.His greatest disciple however, was a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's Fascist movement was based upon direct action and inspired by a myth of a resurgent Roman Empire. Mussolini made explicit reference, again and again, to the importance of myth in revolutionary struggle.Sorel inadvertently became the prophet of revolutionary Fascism.Two asides: (a) there is no reason for corporate executives to keep this book by their bedsides - it contains nothing of economic value, and its ideology is thoroughly exhausted and devoid of contemporary relevance; (b) Sorel is one of the few French intellectuals besides Tocqueville who seemed to have a healthy respect for America and the American economic miracle.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Sorel's Idealistic Memoirs vs Political Reality By James E. Egolf Georges Sorel (1847-1922) wrote an assessment of Socialism which often did not account for political realities. Sorel's work appealed to Marxists, socialists and anti-socialists, monarchists, traditionalists, and "Fascists" (whatever Fascism means). While Sorel considered himself a socialist, he scorned many socialists as too "soft" and compromising. Sorel ignored what was politically and economically possible.While Sorel was viewed as a "radical," he had respect for tradition. In fact, he justified the Athenians putting Socrates (470-399 BC) to death because Socrates threatened the traditions of the Ancient Athenians. Sorel argued that Classical Liberalism and capitalism were in a state degeneracy, and only socialist violence or direct action could cure the ills of degenerate Liberalism and a degenerate status quo.Sorel also claimed that he was not a confused idealist and condemned Idealistic reformers who distracted men from focus on direct violence and Sorel called for The General Strike. According to Sorel, political power undermined truth and socialist ideals and that power was a very corrupting influence. Sorel thought that Socialist Party candidates became too imbued with power and too compromised to be very effective. In other words, Socialist Party elected officials lost their lofty ideals-or Sorel's lofty ideas. Sorel contradicted himself when he cited French political writers who condemned the Catholic Vendee Rebellion. The Vendee Catholics resisted the French revolutionaries' mania and attempts to undermine Catholicism. The Vendee rebels used violence to repel oppression which is exactly what Sorel preached in the first place.Sorel then examined the corrupt French legal system. Sorel knew how "the rich and poweful" used the "legal" system to undermine and cheat working class people. Sorel cited that "radical" outlawed revolutionaries during the French Revolution became entrenched advisors during the tenure of Napolean I. No one could challenge Sorel's condemnation of the "legal" system and corrupt jurists. This phenomona was in line with Sorel's criticism of the parlimenatry participation of socialists.Sorel argued further argued that socialists "lost their souls" once elected to public office. As Sorel wrote, these men became mere job seekers and robbers. Sorel's solution was, again, direct action and The General Strike. The challenge for Sorel was to get the masses organized in a massive violent strike which he thought would strike fear in the establishment and lead to reform and, as he viewed the situtation, a "purer" society. Sorel viewed social reform as useless and undermined "true" justice.While Sorel's schemes would result in violence, he thought such violence would galvanize workers who could claim the dead were "martyrs to the cause." In other words, Sorel wanted revolutionary violence rather than reforms and attempted corrections to inequalities. Sorel thought that working class people were the actual producers of wealth and that they should engage in violence as The Ethics of Producers.Sorel had a concluding section in praise of Lenin (1870-1924) and the Bolsheviks. Sorel misunderstood the Russian Bolsheviks (the Communists). Voline wrote a book titled THE UNKNOWN REVOLUTION in which Voline cited "chapter and verse" re the Bolsheviks' terror against worker movemnets. As Trotsky (1888-1940) wrote, "We will shoot them like birds." Had Sorel lived at the time of Stalin's mass concerntration camp state, Sorel may have changed his views re the Bolsheviks.Sorel's showed insight in this book. Yet, Sorel was not a good student of politics and history. 6,000 years of history undermined Sorel's book. Radicals have often been absorbed by established political power. Political leaders often "change hats" to suit the political system. Sorel should have realized Aristotle's (384 BC-322 BC) remark that politics is the art of compromise. Sorel should have also realized that working class people are more concerned about improved wages and working conditions rather than violence and martyrdom. A question that Sorel never considered is what would happen if the General Strike acutally worked. New elites would get power with the same political temptations as the previous regime.James E. EgolfMay 31, 2014
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Kindle text is garbage. By N. Mahon This review is exclusively about the kindle version of this work. I would love to critique the work itself, but the text is so poorly transliterated obviously incorrect words are substituted in almost every sentence. There are frequent gems such as "poHitical," instead of political "axe," instead of are. Moreover, the text is so cramped one portion of the text is indiscernible from the rest at a glance. It is not at all evident where one letter, or segment begins and another ends. This is probably the poorest Kindle text I have ever had the displeasure of reading.
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