Let's be honest: Soral has a good level in philosophy, a strong historical basis on all matters concerning the Revolution and the Twentieth Century, and is pretty good at strategic understanding of current policies, as it has a critical apparatus that allows it to ask the good questions (he brings the right answers? This is up to each judge). But where Soral, this jack-of-all, is really the most pointed, his real field of excellence is sociology. And this book is a full demonstration. Understanding the Empire is his biggest success I remain convinced that it is "Towards the feminisation" his great book. Michel Schneider and his "Big Mother", Christopher Lasch and "The culture of narcissism" Soral produced the third book of a trilogy disconnected that gives a true vision of our society and our current culture, and the keys of understanding, particularly historic.
This is in no way a macho or misogynistic book. This is a test not only born of a theoretical reflection, as is often the case among the intellectuals or academics, but after a praxis: the thought lived in the real world, in his body, in experiments flesh. A book argued, intelligent, disturbing, I dare say virtuoso, always with the biting irony of Soral, which permanently prevents falling into the morgue, pure cynicism, fatalism or vulgar.
