Sorel Advocates for Revolutionary Syndicalism

Understood from within the Marxian framework, the scope for a different, “socialist” kind of society depended, as Sorel saw it, on the industrial working class maturing and acting on its own, outside bourgeois political institutions. On that basis, Sorel became an advocate of revolutionary syndicalism, insisting that the possibility of revolutionary transformation rested not on political parties operating in parliament but on the syndicats, in the trade unions.

--David D. Roberts, The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth-Century Europe: Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics (New York: Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2006), 110-111.