Syndicalism in France: A Study of Ideas by Jeremy Jennings
By Jeremy Jennings
This can be an exam of syndicalist rules in France from their starting place within the nineteenth century till the Sixties. It concentrates its realization upon teams of individuals: the militants who created and led the syndicalist move at its peak (especially Fernand Pelloutier, Victor Griffuelhes and Emile Pouget), and the intellectuals who within the first decade of the 20 th century defined a unique syndicalist ideology (Georges Sorel, Edoaurd Berth and Hubert Lagardelle). furthermore, it analyzes the information of reformist syndicalism, tracing their resource to the positivism of Auguste Comte, and follows the profession of Pierre Monatte, pal of Trostky and Alfred Rosmer, syndicalist activist for over 60 years, and founding father of "La Vie ouvriere" and "La Revolution Proletarienne". especially, this paintings indicates that there's extra to syndicalism than the doctrines of sophistication warfare and direct motion. Syndicalists, in markedly other ways, have been to reply to the ways of the extraordinary correct, the outbreak of worldwide battle I, the Russian Revolution, the increase of Stalinism and fascism, and the chilly battle.
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By the time of these events the disillusionment feIt towards the Republic Fernand Pelloutier and Revolutionary Syndicalism 37 by many syndicalists was complete. To a certain extent syndicalist hostility towards the Republic derived from straightforward theoretical premises. As an anarchist it made sense for Yvetot to comment that a republic was no different from a monarchy. 153 But this was not the case for all syndicalists: for others it was the Republic in action that was decisive in shaping their views.
Pouget was at first critical of this position but during 1898 his views were slowly to change and when Faure launched the pro-Dreyfus Journal du peuple in February 1899 Pouget was to be found amongst its contributors. At issue in the Dreyfus Affair, Pouget argued, was not primarily the fate of Dreyfus as an individual but the struggle between the forces of re action and revolution. '. 139 Dreyfus, Pouget argued, was the victim of the Jesuits and the 'top brass' of the army and he was their victim precisely because he was a symbol of the Jew.
The anarchists would act as the libertarian conscience of the syndicats. 57 The end pursued by Pelloutier never varied therefore: it was the creation of a 'society of free men'. 58 There exists, he wrote, 'in the heart of men not a puerile sentiment of insubordination . . 59 That personality, Pelloutier asserted, could only flourish and develop in a society shorn of hierarchy and inequality. Men were no longer prepared to be treated as machines and tools; they wished to be 'creators' and 'inventors' of their works.