... Georges Sorel Marxism Karl Marx Fascism class struggle ...

... This chapter tracks the emergence of a radicalized dialectic of class struggle in the work of turn-of-the-century French syndicalist, Georges Sorel. Distilling an early version of Sorel’s myth from his restaging of the Trial of Socrates , we see how Sorel would later break with unity and turn...

... Whereas most—notably Hannah Arendt—draw Sorel and Fanon together with the goal of rejecting both, this chapter begins from the opposite gesture. Despite Jean-Paul Sartre’s terse dismissal of Sorel’s “fascist utterances,” Fanon’s formulation of violence and revolutionary dialectics shares much...