Beyond Democracy by Hubert Lagardelle (1931)

* Source: part of Morgan, H.R., Codex fascismo part two and three, Xlibris Corporation 2013 

* First published: As part of H. Lagardelle ‘Capitalisme’ (1931), ‘lA Fin d’une culture’ (1935), ‘Supercapitalisme’ (1931), ‘Au-dela de la democratie: De l’homme abstrait a l’homme reel’ (1931)

'It is the nature of rationalism to eliminate, as far as possible, the psychological forces it meets on its path. This is philosophy of action that (gives) first place to intuition. (Based in movement, energy, and dynamism). For this philosophy to become active and realized it needed a myth, and when it became clear that the myth of worker violence and rioting along with the labor ‘strike’ actions were unviable because the proletariat is not capable of playing out its revolutionary role, one had to look to the nation (the national citizenry comprising all social and labor ‘classes’. 'I confess that even if the dreams of the future of syndicalist socialization never come true—and no one foreknows the course of history —the fact is that, at the time I am speaking, it is the main agent of civilization in the world would be reason enough for me to give it my full support.'  

 '(When thinking about a general ‘strike’ we find that it is) a spontaneous operation of the spirit (whereupon) no date or place can be assigned. This kind of social activism, though it aims at practicality, has no time for “Utopian reveries,” defines itself solely in terms of class struggle, and is interested in the working class only when it is in combat formation, desires only a state of societal tension in an on going will toward confrontation. It is enough for the combative faculties of the proletariat to be kept constantly on the alert and that it should never lose the adventurous energy that creates conquerors.'. '(In the realm of politics the largest target for Fascist attack could only be ‘liberal democracy’ and liberal “free-trade”). (Fascists) see clearly enough to admit that this disaffection of the (people) of workers and the state, which has become republican, seems to me the culminating fact of the history of these recent years. The proletariat (may find it easier) to break with democracy (due to) the very experience with democracy. 'Revolutionary Syndicalism places itself against both liberal democracy and its substitute ‘parliamentary socialism. (opting for) direct action, which is the principle of syndicalism—(violent, noisy, loud!) for the debilitating atmosphere of social peace. (Therefor) the Syndicalist movement becomes even more an agent of moral progress than of economic progress.'

'Democracy only recognizes the individual: it ignores the ‘group’, (it devastates) the individual of his sensitive qualities (eventually creating) a ‘theoretical man. The fault of individualist democracy is that it leaves the producer defenseless. (To permanently sever from the established order, and the “abstract man” is only attainable through a well and properly established Corporate Syndicalism) which has offered the most striking example of the “real” man brought by the group to the surface of society'