From 1899, Édouard Berth became a regular contributor to
Le Mouvement socialiste before breaking with this review in 1909. An active defender of
Alexandre Millerand's reformist positions until 1902, he then gradually evolved towards revolutionary syndicalism, while showing a mystical inclination. From 1909, Berth, starting from a common aversion for “bourgeois” parliamentary democracy, moved closer to the monarchist movement and founded with Georges Valois and wrote for Cahiers du Cercle Proudhon in 1911. He then tried to propose a synthesis of revolutionary syndicalism and
corporatism. In 1917 was enthusiastic about the
Bolshevik Revolution and saw in it a new expression of the class struggle. A contributor to the review Clarté, he joined the
French Communist Party in 1920. Disillusioned with communism, he became a vehement critic of
Stalin's policies in the Soviet Union and the
Stalinist PCF, and later once again joined the ranks of revolutionary syndicalism from 1935. Becoming increasingly marginalized by the labor movement in France, Berth died mostly forgotten of angina pectoris in Neuilly-sur-Seine. ==References==