ABSTRACT
In Gramsci's narrative 'Giolitti' and 'Croce' are names signifying facts. 'Croce' is a philosophical narrative. 'Giolitti' signifies a politic of cultural legitimation. Croce's ambiguous politics reach at an ideological level which articulates an anomaly and accommodates myth. Sorel perceived myth as a historical Absolute. Myth presides over his political cosmology. Reality is perceived as the terrain where myth would find its form within action qua progress qua revolution. Sorel's equation of his narrative of revolutionary myth with Bergson's notions of intuition was not inconsequential. Bergson's philosophy was a theory adopted by a praxis. It was fuelled by a possibility which never interested Bergson. Sorel turned mutualism into a theory of action; a meeting-point between Bergson and Proudhon. The utopian element in Sorel's revolutionary socialism was more than merely evident. Bergson insisted that reality—like motion— is perceived in its entirety in an act of intuition.
