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As early as June 1908 Sorel was announcing his impending ‘retreat’ from syndicalism.1 A few weeks later, he was to remark that syndicalism ‘offers nothing of interest to philosophers’.2 Writing to Mario Missiroli on the decline of syndicalism he was also to comment that ‘the time has come for thinkers who seek only the truth to withdraw’.3 With what can only appear as amazing rapidity Sorel had abandoned the syndicalist movement. His reasons for this are quite clear.
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Last Writings
G. Valois, ‘Quelques tentatives d’aggression contre le Cercle Proudhon’, Cahiers du Cercle Proudhon, Jan-Feb 1914, pp. 93–4.
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Jennings, J.R. (1985). Last Writings. In: Georges Sorel. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07458-7_7
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