Abstract
So wrote Edouard Berth, faithful disciple of Georges Sorel, in 1913.' Berth, who considered himself something of a student of decadence, was then in a state of high agitation. He was, on the one hand, excited and filled with admiration over the splendid military initiative launched by the small Balkan states against the Ottoman empire. On the other hand, he could hardly contain his disgust with the nervous reaction of the Great Powers, so steeped in decadent pacifism as to be unable to appreciate this daring feat of arms. He was especially disappointed that revolutionary syndicalism, a movement upon which he had placed his youthful hopes for the renovation of society, had fallen victim to humanitarian pacifism that most degenerate form of bourgeois dissolution.2 Berth was not the first man of the revolutionary Left nor was he to be the last who began to analyze the pacifism of his fellow revolutionaries in terms of decadence.
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