Editing Syndicalism (section)

==Variants==

===[[File:Cball-Occitania.png]]Comité d'Action Viticole ===
The ‘Comité Régional d'Action Viticole’ (CRAV) is a French militant group for wine producers. The group was formed in 1970 and is primarily active in the southern region of Languedoc-Roussillon. CRAV believes that the region has been plagued by surplus production, which has disadvantaged wine producers. The insurgency is responsible for numerous attacks in the region, which have involved dynamiting grocery stores and wineries, or even burning cars.


Ideologically, the CRAV seeks to pressure the government to adapt the quality and quantity of wine production to changing market realities. Essentially, the group seeks to make the government acknowledge and react to the falling domestic, daily demand for French wine. The CARV emphasises that this impact on the French wine market has been caused by the European Union’s subsidies, which have negatively influenced smaller producers. Amongst the other workers’ protest organisations in France, CRAV is the most violent.


CRAV's official political demands include elements that are considered impossible for French politicians due to the European Union’s rules; many of the group’s demands would require interference with a single market (the wine market), as well as introducing restrictive tariffs against the rising imports of Spanish and Italian wine. 


The insurgency has orchestrated numerous attacks (primarily throughout the southern region of Languedoc-Roussillon), such as dynamiting grocery stores, wineries, the agriculture ministry offices of two cities, burning a car in another city, hijacking a tanker, and destroying large quantities of non-French wine. Moreover, the French manager for the E. & J. Gallo Winery in California has reported that he — along with his sales staff — have been physically assaulted by alleged members of the CARV. In May 2007, the group also released a video where spokesmen threatened that “blood would flow” if President Sarkozy failed to raise the price of foreign wine.



===[[File:Sorel.png]] Sorelianism===
Sorelianism refers to the ideas of French philosopher Georges Sorel, who advocated for a revolutionary form of [[File:RevSynd.png]] revolutionary syndicalism based upon Nietzschean, Marxist, and Mutualist thought, while rejecting more mainstream parliamentary socialism. His most famous work is "Reflections on Violence", in which he introduced numerous key ideas; most importantly, his conception of myth, and his analysis of social peace and producerist ethics. 

Sorel was highly critical of the French left, due to their decadent political optimism (a label he applied to reformist socialists). This, along with accusations of reactionaryism, revisionism, and proto-fascism, has made him a controversial yet influential figure in the socialist movement.

====[[File:RevSynd.png]] The Strike====
Georges Sorel opposed Nonviolent socialism. He saw the strike as the main tool to fight against the bourgeoisie, creating a divide-and-conquer scenario that would cause factionalism and destroy the bourgeoisie.

====[[File:RevSynd.png]] Myths====
Sorel’s conception of the myth came about as a way of solving the problem of how to properly install discipline and to energize them. A myth is an event for the proletariat to work towards that showcases what they can achieve. And for Sorel, the most important myth of the proletariat is that of the general strike, which he urges the proletariat to work towards with no hesitation, ‘to precede exactly as a modern physicist does’, he said.

====[[File:Nietzsche.png]] Pacifism and Producerist Ethics====
Sorel’s other important contribution is his conception of producerist ethics, which he borrowed from Friedrich Nietzsche’s conception of master morality and of social peace. In Sorel’s home country, France, he examined how the bourgeoisie had weakened itself and given economic and political concessions to the socialists of the country, but only to stabilize itself. This had resulted in the rise of decadence within the bourgeoisie, and the French left, as the bourgeoisie and proletariat intermingled in the democratic affairs. His solution was that of producerist ethics (which he examined from the old bourgeoisie and their cold and ruthless nature in seeking profit) of unlimited proletarian violence, which would destroy social peace and accelerate the class war to its breaking point.

====[[File:DepressionMale.png]] Pessimism====
Sorel’s pessimism is an anti-reformist one, being based on his naming of socialist reformism as being political optimism. His main focus with this is on the dire state of the French socialist movement and how they have surrendered themselves to bourgeois forces. The bourgeoisie to pacify the proletariat has granted the socialist parties limited power to give them hope of achieving their goals peacefully, and with this locking the socialist movement in a cycle of political optimism that will lead only to the stabilization of capitalism. The only solution as stated before for Sorel is unrestrained revolutionary violence by the proletariat to destroy social peace and its institutions of it and to accelerate the class war.
====Rejenuvation of the Bourgeoisie====
Sorel believe that the proletariat strike will instill vitality into the bourgeoisie and revitalise them WIP