Violence, Myth And Morality

The aim of this article is to tidy up and explain the realistic background and ideological origins of Georges Sorel’s political theory.In the realistic background perspective, although Sorel never participated nor lead the syndicalism movement, but some most important avocations of syndicalism, just like called for the implementation of the general strike, appeal to the workers to liberate themselves, refused to accept the leadership of the party figures and intellectuals, and so on, all of these laid deeply marks on Sorel’s political thoughts. The Dreyfusard movement had three impacts to Sorel. Firstly, from this event Sorel recognized that the degeneration of bourgeois and social elites. Secondly, once again Sroel found the boost significance of the mass movement for social change. The last, it made Sorel recognize the hypocrisy and cowardice of the parliamentary socialists.In the ideological origins perspective, Sorel was deeply impacted by the thinker like Marx, Vico, Bergson, and Nietzsche, so he was very disgusted and resisted the intellectualism and the idea of progress, which were the mainstream thinking in the late19th century Europe. Sorel was dominated by one idea:that man is both a creator and a moralist. Sorel believed that it will not be achieve until the capitalist society be overthrow and the socialist society be established.Under the belief above, Sorel began fighting on two fronts:on the first front, Sorel violently attacked the democracy, freedom philosophy, market economy, education and moral, represented by France. In a word, he made a thorough critique of capitalist society. On the second front, Sorel wanted to prove the proletariat general strike can also brick the country machine and produce some sprits which must be in the future society.In this sense, the essences of Sorels political thoughts ware to build a set of heart and action mechanism, which Unity property class to launch a general offensive to the bourgeoisie. So the fundamental purpose of the Sorel’s theories, whether Violence, political myth, nor producer ethics, is to inspire the proletariat increasing the fighting will of revolutionary, and launching direct action. Sorel expected that the socialism will be come, if the proletariats accept the myth, and use violence in a decisive battle.Sorel is a profound critic about the capitalism. He found the most diagnostics of the modern society, just like the mediocre of education, the oligarchy of democracy, and the hypocrisy of freedom, and all of these will be an alarm of modern society.