the ideology and thinking of French revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel: anti-individualist, anti-liberal, anti-materialist, anti-positivist, anti-rationalist, spiritualist syndicalism
the influence of Sorel in Serge's anarcho-syndicalist formation: the Sorelian notion of a moral elite, alien in Marxism, informed his belief that the direction of history 'depends to a very large extent on the calibre of individual human beings'