The Paris Commune—Myth Made Material
As George Sorel explained, myths “provide an intelligible exposition of the passing of principles into action”
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Revolutions are materialist events in their essence. The explosive outgrowth of specific circumstances in specific places at specific times, the product of a specific history and a specific society, they are also, paradoxically, the bearers and result of what the philosopher Georges Sorel in his Reflections on Violence called “myths.” ...
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