George Sorel’s Reflections on Violence (Counter-Currents Reupload)

https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-464-mike-from-imperium-press-on-george-sorels-on-violence/

Host Greg Johnson welcomed Mike from Imperium Press back to the show on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss Georges Sorel’s On Violence, which was recently published by Imperium, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

01:02
Who was George Sorel?

07:33
Why did Sorel, a Marxist, hate progressives?

11:42
Sorel also criticized the working class

16:07
What were his views on violence?

17:00
On the distinction between “force” and “violence”

20:52
What is syndicalism?

29:53
On Sorel’s Right-wing values

35:16
“Utopia” vs. “myth”

42:40
Other than the nation, what myths can drive politics?

46:48
Question: “As nationalists, how do you reconcile the importance of class analysis with the necessity of hierarchy?”

54:13
“You can’t think your way out of nihilism”

1:00:15
On morale, vitality, and embattlement

1:06:47
On the sublime

1:09:58
On the value of irony to the Right

1:15:41
“Vico is our Marx, only better” (Greg Johnson’s “Our Marx, Only Better: Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism“)

1:20:53
Imperium Press’ contact details