Pluralism on and Off Course by Stanislaw Ehrlich

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Szczepanski, when trying to explain the extent of Durkheim's influence, writes: In Durkheim's sociology one idea turns out to have been extraordinarily fertile: namely, that all spheres of human culture develop within definite social groups and are determined as to their origin and Pluralism in France 31 evolution by the social forces working in those groups, and by the 77 system and institutions of and in those groups. From the point of view of the problem we are concerned with, Dürkheim continued the political ideas of de Montesquieu and de Tocqueville, and at the same time, and perhaps therefore, was a forerunner of group pluralism.

99 G. Sorel admired Proudhon, but not uncritically. He accepted Proudhon's pluralistic analysis of society, and in particular the significance of bringing out the whole variety of interests and social aspirations, for he thought that it was necesary to oppose the pressure of societal unity, embodied by hierarchically organized authority that was imposing uniform rules of behaviour upon all citizens. Sorel stressed the fact that Proudhon had come better to understand the inevitability of the class struggle, as he had formulated it towards the close of his life in De la Capacité.

Proudhon's order means an order which is differentiated, but not 39 any uniformity under which "even an ape could give commands". Here we come to the heart of the matter. For all the said zigzaggings, Proudhon's writings show great coherence in the area with which this book is concerned. In the confusion of incessantly changing situations during the revolutionary period between 1828 and 1848, he succeeded in noticing essential trends, especially the emerging unions of workers, in which he saw the egalitarian and spontaneous organizations of the future.

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