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Double Game of French Socialism

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  • The Message
    • I. The center and the right in the face of French Socialism: optimistic illusion, scope of the defeat, and the crossroads
      • 2. A Look at the Real SP
  1: .  This characterization of the SP is thoroughly documented. The French Socialist Par[...]



  • The Message
    • I. The center and the right in the face of French Socialism: optimistic illusion, scope of the defeat, and the crossroads
      • 3. The Great Factor in the Rise of Socialism in France: Abstention Prevails in the Center and the Right
  2: . Even though there is an open alliance between the SP and the CP, its beneficiary stil[...]
  3: . The references to the right in this work do not include the traditionalist French rig[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 1. "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity " in the Socialist Program
  4: .  In his Apostolic Letter Notre Charge Apostolique, of August 25, 1910, condemning the [...]
  5: .  In addition to the countries inside the Iron and Bamboo curtains, communism has also [...]
  6: .  "There have been privileged moments in our history which remain engraved in the colle[...]
  7: .  ". . . equality itself [is] one of the most important demands of the workers' movemen[...]
  8: .  "At first sight the societies of the East can claim features that make them seem like[...]
  9: .  "Someone may say to me: You speak of self-management but fail to clearly define how i[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 2. The SP, the Center and the Right
  10: . "The Socialist Program is a global and radical program for the reor­ganization of socie[...]
  11: .  "Let us declare right away that we consider as ours, by right of inheri­tance, the heri[...]
  12: .  Our general references to the right do not include the traditionalist French right, whi[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 3. The SP and Communism -The Strategy of Gradualism
  13: .  "The socialists hold neither these willful solutions of leftism nor the reformists' pol[...]
  14: .  "The notion of self-­management ... is at the crossing of ways between scientific socia[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 4. Corporate Self-Management: a Socio-Economic Revolution
  15: . "French democracy is large manipulated. It is also carefully limited. It stops at the t[...]
  16: .  "Economic democracy and political democracy are indissociable; their joint development [...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 5. Self-Management Must Encompass Society and Man as a Whole
  17: . "For man to be liberated from the alienations that capitalism imposes on him, for him t[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 6. Why Corporate  Reform Requires a  Reform of Man
  18: .  This negative psychological effect is intrinsic to self-management. However, this does [...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 7. The Self-Managing Society and the Family
  19: .  "While considering that the family plays a very important role in the possibilities of [...]
  20: .  "The poor diffusion of contraception methods, the conditions restricting voluntary inte[...]
  21: .  Citing a speech of Mitterand in Marseille in May 1979, the Program affirms: "One cannot[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 8. Leisure
  22: .  "Work is not the only thing in life. The creation of the Ministry of Free Time is a gre[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 9. Control of Lifestyles
  23: .  "The Cadre de vie ["frame of life," in the sense of all ambiences, activities and relat[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 10. Education
  24: .  "The government will take the necessary measures to make it possible for all children f[...]
  25: .  "Tripartite management (parents and children, staff, and public collectivities [sic] mu[...]
  26: .  "The Socialist Program recog­nizes the child's full place in society: equality, liberty[...]
  27: .  ". . . generous and aggressive conception of the socialists for [bringing about] a grea[...]
  28: .  "All sectors of initial teaching and an important part of continuing education will be [...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 11. The Right of Property in the Self-Managing Regime
  29: .  According to the traditional doctrine of the Church, the right of property is a consequ[...]
  30: .  "The socialists favor the principle of socialization of the means of production in all [...]
  31: .  According to the socialists, one of the goals of "democratic plan­ning" is to determine[...]
  32: .  This affirmation does not include a worker's ownership of his tools (an artisan's, for [...]
  33: .  "There can be no self-­management in a capitalist regime: a private enterprise cannot b[...]



  • The Message
    • II. Doctrine and Strategy in the Socialist Program for France
      • 12. Rural Property in the Socialist Program
  34: .  "Tenure and guarantee of the land - An instrument of work, the land will be protected a[...]



  • The Message
    • III. The doctrinal core of the Socialist Program: secularism - "liberté, egalité, fraternité"
      • 1. The Rights of Man in the Self-Managing Society: to Become Informed, Dialogue and Vote
  35: .  "One of the foundations of the self-managing socialist society is the recognition of sm[...]
  36: . Just like the French socialists, the communists have the self-­management of society as[...]
  37: .  "One does not adhere to socialism without a certain view of man, of what he wants, of w[...]



  • The Message
    • III. The doctrinal core of the Socialist Program: secularism - "liberté, egalité, fraternité"
      • 2. Religion and religions in the Program
  39: .  Catholics are frequently more sensitive to transgressions of the Law of God having to d[...]
  40: . Thc pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes contains a quite syn­thetic description of mo[...]
  41: .  "To our understanding, collec­tive is synonymous with grandeur, beauty, profundity and [...]
  42: . "The whole movement of sci­ence fits into a permanent questioning of the postulates of [...]



  • The Message
    • III. The doctrinal core of the Socialist Program: secularism - "liberté, egalité, fraternité"
      • 3. The Attitude of the French Episcopate Toward the SP
  43: .  This position of evasive neu­trality toward the elections was emphatically reaffirmed b[...]
  44: .  For the sake of brevity, the full text of the statements of the French bishops on the r[...]
  45: .  In this document, the French bishops state: "Our pastoral ministry makes us witnesses t[...]
  46: .  The well-known progressivist Catholic magazine Informations Catholiques Internationales[...]



  • The Message
    • IV. Is this interference in France's internal affairs?
  47: .  "There could be no socialist program for France alone. The dilemma, 'liberty or servitu[...]



  • About the Author: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
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