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Georges Sorel
Georges Eugène Sorel was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Fernand Pelloutier, Karl Marx, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson, and later William James. His notion of the power of myth in collective agency in…
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culture · French philosopher and sociologist (1847-1922) · philosopher · engineer · sociologist · writer · trade unionist · social reformer · opinion journalist · also Georges Sorel, Georges Eugène Sorel, Sorel
Born 2 November 1847 · Died 29 August 1922 · Q313666
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I have no reason to suppose that Lenin gained his ideas from my books; but if that were true, I should be not a little proud of having contribute to the intellectual development of a man who seems to me to be at once the greatest theoretician of socialism since Marx and a statesman whose genius recalls that of Peter the Great.
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Lenin may be proud of what his comrades are doing; the Russian workers are acquiring immortal glory in attempting the realization of what hitherto had been only an abstract idea…..
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2014· 2 entries
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Le Progrès: Lyon Georges Sorel fait chevalier dans l’Ordre national du Mérite
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2007· 1 entry
L'Humanité: Georges Sorel : un immense inconnu ?
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1922· 6 entries
Died 1922-08-29.
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“I have no reason to suppose that Lenin gained his ideas from my books; but if that were true, I should be not a little proud of having contribute to the intellectual development of a man who seems to me to be at once the greatest theoretician of socialism since Marx and a statesman whose genius recalls that of Peter the Great.”
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“Lenin may be proud of what his comrades are doing; the Russian workers are acquiring immortal glory in attempting the realization of what hitherto had been only an abstract idea…..”
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“Mussolini is a man no less extraordinary than Lenin. He, too, is a political genius, of a greater reach than all the statesmen of the day, with the only exception of Lenin…”
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“Mussolini is not an ordinary socialist. You will perhaps see him one day as a leader of a consecrated battalion, saluting the flags of Italy with his sword. He is an Italian of the fifteenth century, a condottiere. He is the only man with the strength to correct the weakness of the government.”
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“All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates.”
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That Corradini “understands exceedingly well the value of my ideas
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1908· 1 entry
By Pages Libres, and was followed the same year by The Illusions of Progress
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1905· 1 entry
His most famous text, Reflections on Violence, began appearing in the Divenire Sociale
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1897· 1 entry
"is entirely in the past; there is no way of transforming it into a logical combination allowing us to predict the future
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1895· 1 entry
"socialism is worthy of belonging to the modern scientific movement"
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1893· 1 entry
Publicly announced his position as a Marxist and a socialist
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1869· 1 entry
Became chief engineer with the Department of Public Works
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1864· 1 entry
To attend the Collège Rollin, before entering the École Polytechnique a year later
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1847· 1 entry
Born 1847-11-02.
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