Georges Sorel was born in Cherbourg, France, on November 2, 1847. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and worked as a civil engineer in the Department of Bridges and Roads in the city. It was considered, in the early twentieth century, as a bold theorist who succeeded in uniting the ideas of Marx, Proudhon and Bergson. Drive syndicalism, Sorel ended up being appropriated by the fascism of Benito Mussolini; his ideas also influenced the thinking of Lenin. In the '60s, interest in the philosophy of Georges Sorel it was driven again from the current anarcomarxista. Sorel died on September 4, 1922, in Boulogne-Sur-Seine.