Sorel: Reflections on Violence

✍ Scribed by Jennings, Jeremy; Sorel, Georges

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1999
Tongue: English, French
Leaves: 348
Series: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this classic text, Sorel develops the ideas of violence, myth, and the general strike as the heroic actions of the proletariat. His ideas would later be cited by Marxists and Fascists to support their non-compliant and violent methods to strike at bourgeoisie culture.

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction
Reflections on Violence: Introduction
Part I. Class Struggle and Violence
Part II. The Decadence of the Bourgeoisie and Violence
Part III. Prejudices against Violence
Part IV. The Proletarian Strike
Part V. The Political General Strike
Part VI. The Ethics of Violence
Part VII. The Ethics of the Producers
Appendix I. Unity and multiplicity
Appendix II. Apology for violence
Appendix III. In defence of Lenin.

✦ Subjects

Syndicalism. Strikes and lockouts. Social conflict. Violence. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism. Huelgas. Sindicalismo. Conflicto social.

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