"Whatever field one considers, the application of self-management has no meaning if not within a global perspec­tive" (Program, p. 234).

"The Socialist Program is fundamen­tally a cultural program ... culture is global. That is, it ... has to do with all sectors of human activity" (Program, p. 280).

"The self-managing perspective gives meaning to the workers' struggle to con­trol their own work ... sometimes con­fused struggles, which multiplied after May 1968, but witch echo a long tradi­tion, a moral and material requirement that was once fulfilled in the Commune. Finally, it is enriched by the specifically French tradition of the citizens' accumu­lated responsibility, a responsibility whose bearers were the revolutionaries of 1789-1793 and 1848. The self­-managing program as conceived by the SP is inseparable from the full blossom­ing of individual and collective liberties" (Documentation Socialiste, supplement to no. 2, p. 43).

"Through all its actions, France will reassume, in history, a role which to a great extent explains its influence in the world. France's radiant influence ... cannot be separated from its culture and its past. Abroad, France is first of all that of the revolution of 1789, that of audacity.... We want our country, by reassuming its tradition, to bear high and far the values of the rights of man, of fraternity. . . " ("Declaration of General Policy," p. 55).