SOURCE: "Sorel, Marx, and the Drama," in Selected Essays and Critical Writings, edited by Herbert Read and Denis Saurai, Stanley Nott, 1935, pp. 110-13.

In the following review of Reflections on Violence, economist and philosopher Orage credits Sorel with providing a necessary mythology to socialist philosophy, and declares Sorel a worthy disciple of Karl Marx.

Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the few works upon Socialism that can be, and deserves to be, read by the non-professional student. Socialist authors for the most part are for Socialist readers exclusively. They are usually economic dissenting parsons addressing a conventicle of the already saved in language of a sectarian circumscription. Occasionally, however, one of them breaks loose from the sect and the language of the sect, and addresses the world in the language of the world. And Sorel is one of these. Regarding his thesis that a 'myth' is necessary...