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Syndicalism
Although its ideas were undoubtedly put on the map by the French social philosopher Georges Sorel, who wrote Reflections on Violence in 1908, syndicalism was not the creation of one particular writer or even a group of writers. Despite the “ism” that lends it a theoretical air, syndicalism is best described as a movement or as a “philosophy of action” that evolved in the everyday struggle to improve workers’ lives, rather than being concerned to develop a unified body of doctrine. Unlike Marxism, the syndicalist movement offered no sweeping explanations of social change and no fundamental theory of revolution, and it produced no great revolutionary theorists to rival those produced by Marxism. But even if they did not produce any profound analytical texts, syndicalists presented ...
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