Sorel anticipated philosophy of praxis as a popular reformation but remained an elitist.

Evidence

A conception of the philosophy of praxis as a modern popular reformation (since those people who expect a religious reformation in Italy, a new Italian edition of Calvinism, like Missiroli and Co., are living in cloud-cuckooland) was perhaps hinted at by Georges Sorel, but his vision was fragmentary and intellectualistic, because of his kind of Jansenist fury against the squalor of parliamentarism and political parties. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1405

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s rejection of elite/ivory-tower intellectuals — groundwork for organic intellectuals concept.