Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 464
Mike from Imperium Press on George Sorel’s Reflections on Violence

You can buy Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence from Imperium Press here.

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Host Greg Johnson welcomed Mike from Imperium Press back to the show on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss Georges Sorel’s On Violence, which was recently published by Imperium, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

01:02 Who was George Sorel?
07:33 Why did Sorel, a Marxist, hate progressives?
11:42 Sorel also criticized the working class
16:07 What were his views on violence?
17:00 On the distinction between “force” and “violence”
20:52 What is syndicalism?
29:53 On Sorel’s Right-wing values
35:16 “Utopia” vs. “myth”
42:40 Other than the nation, what myths can drive politics?
46:48 Question: “As nationalists, how do you reconcile the importance of class analysis with the necessity of hierarchy?”
54:13 “You can’t think your way out of nihilism”
1:00:15 On morale, vitality, and embattlement
1:06:47 On the sublime
1:09:58 On the value of irony to the Right
1:15:41 “Vico is our Marx, only better” (Greg Johnson’s “Our Marx, Only Better: Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism“)
1:20:53 Imperium Press’ contact details

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