Biblioteca / 1970-1979
Frederick Ridley. Revolutionary Syndicalism in France. The Direct Action of its Time.
Cambridge University Press, 1970.
290 páginas.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
National character and revolutionary tradition
From craft to industry
The repressive state
Proudhon and mutual aid
Blanqui and the barricades
Bakunin and anarchism
The socialist tower of babel
The betrayal of the politicians
The growth of an organised movement
Strength and organisation of the C.G.T.
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF THE C.G.T.
Reform and revolution: the twofold purpose
Political neutrality and the politics of syndicalism
The autonomy of labour and direct action
The theory of the strike
The strike in practice
The tactics of the strike
Subsidiary forms of direct action
Labour as a political pressure group
Antimilitarism and antipatriotism
Genealogy of the general strike
The changing picture of the general strike
The general strike as myth
Organised labour and the syndicalist utopia
A theory of syndicalism
Conflicting voices in the C.G.T.
Leaders and followers, theory and practice
IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
The revolt against reason
Nietzsche and the transvaluation of all values
Bergson and creative evolution
James and the pragmatic approach
The revolt against democracy
The discredit of French democracy
Nationalism, monarchism and the right
Fascism: the alternative path
Sorel: a moralist in search of action
The philosopher and the labour movement
The militants and the activist temper
Syndicalism as a philosophy of action
Conclusion
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