2021-11-27 04:51:59
From 1911 to 1914, one of the most interesting political experimentation in the history of ideas took place in France. Group of reflection claiming the heritage of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, mainly united around Édouard Berth and Georges Valois, respectively under the aegis of Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras, the Cercle Proudhon saw itself as a sacred union against the democratic institutions, hated as bourgeois, liberals, republican, parliamentarists and plutocrats.
Stuggle of French patriots from two anti-democratic traditions, right and left, the Cercle Proudhon tried to reconcile royalism and revolutionary syndicalism, Tradition and Revolution, nation and class struggle, in the same attachment to the values and virtues of work, of production, classical culture, virility and heroism. Revolutionary against the reformist socialists, and counter-revolutionary vis-à-vis the republican modernists, the Cercle Proudhon saw itself
, as evidenced by its publications in the form of notebooks, as a real alternative to mercantile liberalism, to the exploitation of the people and to the destruction of the nation.
Little disseminated, plagued by its contradictions, and destroyed by the outbreak of the Great War, the Cercle Proudhon attempt is often obscured by official history or presented as a "pre-fascist" experiment. The study of his writings and of his its components push us rather to draw the hopes and the limits of such an experience and to consider the ideas and the acts of this “French conservative revolution” as a model and an honor for all those who want to be of importance in the political field.
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