What makes the Sorelian left unique in terms of their view on violence? What distinguishes this view of redemptive violence from say, MLK Jr.'s line about how "riots are the language of the unheard?" Is the difference between them their dismissal/acceptance of the institutions of liberal democracy?
Are the Sorelian Left a significant force in your estimation? Quartering the interested populace by Left/Right and Soreluan/Gramscian I'd assess them to be easily the numerucally and culturally weakest.
This is a great essay! The idea of the Sorelian left makes a lot of sense -- thinkers in search of a revolutionary force...
What makes the Sorelian left unique in terms of their view on violence? What distinguishes this view of redemptive violence from say, MLK Jr.'s line about how "riots are the language of the unheard?" Is the difference between them their dismissal/acceptance of the institutions of liberal democracy?
Are the Sorelian Left a significant force in your estimation? Quartering the interested populace by Left/Right and Soreluan/Gramscian I'd assess them to be easily the numerucally and culturally weakest.
Culturally, sort of. Politically, not very
Just curious: do you have examples of who is on the Sorelian left?
accidentally reading this after all these years: Taibbi and somesuch? redscare?