In my last blog entry I talked about Georges Sorel. I quoted from Oswald Mosley's website because that was readily available. Well what drew me to read about Sorel was curiousity and not from Mosley but from reading a book about Fascism. "Mediterranean Fascism 1919-- 1945" which has this quote:
A unanimous universally accepted theory of Socialism did not exist after 1905, when the revisionist movement began in Germany under the leadership of Bernstein, while under pressure of the tendencies of the time, a Left Revolutionary movment also appeared, which though never getting further than talk in Italy, in Russian Socialistic circles laid the foundations of Bolshevism. Reformation, Revolution, Centralization -- already the echoes of these terms are spent -- while in the great stream of Fascism are to be found ideas that began with Sorel, Peguy, with Lagardelle in the "Mouvement Socialiste"...
He namedrops. And natural curiousity sped me to find out who these people were and what they were talking about. It pays to study "the enemy" if one is to oppose something ugly. And who these guys were says a lot.
Georges Sorel (1847-1922) according to the book I am quoting from 1 Was the guy we previously talked about. "French theorist of Syndicalism." Charles Peguy was a French Marxian Socialist who became a convert to Roman Catholicism. And Hubert Lagardelle(1874-1958) was a theorist of Revolutionary Syndicalism and editor of the "Le Mouvement Socialiste." But it gets more interesting if one traces down who these people were in more detail. And it gets chilling.