Georges Sorel

"It seems that it was the Jews who had entered the who are primarily responsible for the terroristic measures blamed upon the bolsheviks. This hypothesis appears to me to be all the more reasonable giv…"

"Revolutionary keeps alive the desire to strike in the masses and only prospers when important strikes, accompanied by violence, take place."

"All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’."

"are not descriptions of things, but expressions of a determination to act… A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical with the convictions of a group, being the expression of these con…"

"It is very difficult to understand proletarian violence as long as we try to think in terms of the ideas disseminated by bourgeois philosophy; according to this philosophy, violence is a relic of barb…"

"As the State formerly played a most important part in the revolutions that abolished the old economic systems, so it must again be the State that should abolish capitalism."

"And so I am not concerned to justify the perpetrators of violence but to enquire into the function of the violence of the working classes in contemporary socialism."

"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….."