By Sebastien Budgen.

These texts, and Guérin’s sometimes ferocious self-criticism, present us with the image of a personality deeply riven by contradictions which act as a driving force for his development. These spur him on in a headlong rush of transgressions – sexual, social (becoming a ‘class traitor’ and linking his destiny to that of the working class), national (identifying with the forces seeking to bring down the French imperial state), political (with the result that he was the black sheep in every group or sensibility in which he found himself – too radical for the SFIO, too intellectual for the revolutionary syndicalists, too Trotskyist for the pivertistes, too Pivertist for the Trotskyists, too anarchist for the Marxists, too Marxist for the anarchists…). Each contradiction propels him to a new attempted synthesis, from which he draws nourishment, but which is too unstable to last, and which creates a new series of contradictions and a new fragile synthesis.

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