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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: I think the subject of Sorel is seriously neglected and overlooked these days. He is a very important philosopher and one almost alone in this age who articulately rejected science and rationalism as the wrong path. How many folks are doing that today? He is a great antidote to the slavish and unquestioning adoration and deification of science as a religion, a church with its pulpit, its cardinals and its faithful multitude. Look no further than folks like Dawkins to see the blind, hardline and dogmatic face of modern zealotry masquerading as science and you begin to see what Sorel was about. Peter morrell 18:46, 17 August 2007 (UTC) (edit)

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[edit] Marxism irrationalist?

He criticised what he saw as Marx's rationalist and utopian tendencies, believing that at its heart Marxism was a pessimistic and irrationalist philosophy

This appears to a mistake. In the previous sentence it is asserted that Sorel criticized Marx's rationalism, and under irrationalism Sorel himself is mentioned as a believer in this ideology. I am aware of the dialectical nature of the history of ideas, but this sounds wrong to me. Can anyone shed some light? 88.152.198.21 14:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

The point is that Sorel dismissed the few places where Marx was at his most rationalistic and utopian as being out of keeping with the spirit of the vast bulk of Marx's thought Hanshans23 18:14, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Left wing or right wing?

The politics of communism vs fascism is not the politics of left vs right. Fascism is slightly right of communism, but it is in no way on the right end of the political spectrum. If we are labeling, Sorel was a left wing thinker. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.146.198.20 (talk) 16:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)