This philosopher considered his own work an application of Vico's philosophy to Marxism, and one of his works attacked the 18th-century formulation of the title ideology as a "superstructure of lies."
Leszek Kolakowski referred to this man as a Jansenist Marxist, and this author of The Trial of Socrates is also the subject of an essay by Isaiah Berlin contained in Against the Current. This philosopher considered his own work an application of Vico's philosophy to Marxism, and one of his works attacked the 18th-century formulation of the title ideology as a "superstructure of lies." He referred to Zola as "the perfect representative of the buffoonery of those times," in an essay titled "The Dreyfusian Revolution," and edited the magazine Le devenir, which introduced the work of Marx to France. More notably, this author of The Illusions of Progress formulated his theory of the social uses of the myth of the "General Strike" in order to support anarchosyndicalist movements in a work which examines the responses to the application of force by dissident minorities against a dominant entity. For ten points, identify this thinker best known for his 1908 treatise Reflections on Violence.
Leszek Kolakowski referred to this man as a Jansenist Marxist, and this author of The Trial of Socrates is also the subject of an essay by Isaiah Berlin contained in Against the Current.
Georges Sorel