Note 1023 — Chapter III · : MARXISM

This incessant struggle is what Sorel has named violence, which he thinks is peculiarly healthy. “I have shown,” says he, “that proletarian violence has an entirely different significance from that usually attributed to it by politicians and amateur students of society.” It is incorrect, however, to say that he is in favour of sabotage. “Sabotage,” says Sorel, “belongs to the old régime, but does nothing to set the worker in the way of emancipation.” (Mouvement socialiste, 1905, November 1 and 15.)

One cannot fail to see the antagonism which exists in France between the Socialistes Unifiés (which is largely recruited from the old Marxian party) and the syndicalists, who condemn both universal suffrage and parliamentary action.