Resurrecting Sorel
This is a section of a larger project on political myth, so let me say a few things about the project as a whole and then focus on the issue of foreign policy and the fantasy of Israel. (1) I begin with a quotation from Georges Sorel. Almost a century ago, in the midst of revolutionary turmoil with all its vivid hopes and crushing disappointments, Sorel wrote in his Reflections on Violence:
We know that the general strike is indeed what I have said:
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