Reflections on violence. SORLEL Zh.

The attention of readers is proposed to the book of the famous French social philosopher Georges Sorel, which is the pinnacle of his work of the syndicalist period. In this work, the author defends proletarian violence and heroic morality; He rejects parliamentary socialism, which turned the class struggle into a trading instrument to achieve small material benefits. Class struggle, proletarian violence, according to J. Sorel, have a higher purpose - a total renewal of society through direct action of the proletariat. Only the struggle for high non -altilitarian goals (that is, socialism), in his opinion, can revive morality in society.

The book is recommended for historians, political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, all interested readers.