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cursed as {meteques}.}" (Shirer. p.93) The Church of Rome backed up
Maurras until 1926, when Pope Pius XI issued an official edict condemning
his organization.
Suddenly, during the few years preceding World War I, another
synarchist beast-man, made its appearance in the middle of the labor
struggles of the time. This was the Nazi-Communist, Georges Sorel, a
violence-prone retired government engineer, who proclaimed {direct action}
against the government by the Confederation Generale du Travail (C.G.T.)
which had been created under the Charter of Amiens, in 1906. Sorel had
created a cult of violence, which he had developed in a propaganda book,
{Reflexions on Violence} that had a tremendous impact on directing the
French labor-union movement, and would become the key instrument for
toppling the government. This was the synarchist second chance of toppling
the Third Republic, after the failure of General Boulanger.
Sorel was a synarchist nazi-communist, who had gone from Right to
Left. Initially deployed into the nazi {Action Francaise} of Charles Maurras,
he then became an enthusiast of Lenin. He worked in constant collaboration
with the Italian Croce and Mussolini. Shirer reports: "{Benito Mussolini
would later admit that the germs of fascism were planted in him by the
reading of Sorel before the First World War, when he was a young
revolutionary Socialist in Milan, and editor of the Party's organ,
{Avanti}." It was Sorel who became Mussolini's model for a dictator.
Again, such Left to Right, or Right to Left, transformations were not
rare in France, since it had become the worse country in Europe on labor
laws. It was finally by 1906 that a law was passed that gave labor one day
off a week, on Sundays. Women and children were working 10 hours a day,
and men worked 12 hours. It was quite ironic to see Premier Aristide Briand,
who had been a socialist labor lawyer advocating the right of general strike,
put down a railroad strike by arresting the union leaders, in 1910. Such
anomalies were not rare.
Meanwhile, the old Monarchist Right, anti-intellectual, authoritarian,
advocating naked-force of {French fury}, and chauvinistic nationalism, was
sapping the strength of France to the point of destroying the very fabric of
the nation-state. The Left and Right ideological fights, which had been
manipulated since the early days of the French Revolution, had gone through
a complete inversion. Nationalism chauvinism, militarism, and violence,
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