Ideologies / Syndicalist / Georges Sorel
§ The minds · 1847–1922 · France · Theorist
Georges Sorel
The myth of the general strike
Revolutionary syndicalism's theorist.
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The theorist whose 'Reflections on Violence' made the general strike the central myth of revolutionary syndicalism — power through the union, not the ballot or the party-state.
social
Heterodox revolutionary, suspicious of bourgeois rationalism.
economic
Workers seize industry through their unions, not the state.
governance
Direct action and the general strike over parliamentary politics.
Notable for
- 'Reflections on Violence'
- Theory of the general strike
- Revolutionary syndicalism
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