Everyone explains that discussions about Socialism are exce… - Georges Sorel

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Everyone explains that discussions about Socialism are exceedingly obscure; this obscurity is due, to a large extent, to the fact that contemporary socialists use a terminology which no longer corresponds to their ideas.

Georges Sorel

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Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847 – 29 August 1922) was a French philosopher and theorist of . His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired anarchists, Marxists, and Fascists. It is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered.

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