.
"Work is not the only thing in life. The creation of the Ministry of
Free Time is a great ambition for bringing it about that free time for
living, the liberated time. The society of free time must be a
society of culture...."
"Cultural
expansion will be one of the tasks of local communities" ("Declaration of General Policy," pp. 82-83).
"The
current separation between work and free time will itself be questioned ... The
socialist enterprise will thus evolve into forms of life more and more communitarian
in their core ... as well as in their periphery (social services, leisure,
culture, formation, etc.) (Program, p. 158).
"Let
us cite, for example the possibility of common use of household utensils,
appliances or certain leisure gear... Likewise, a systematic effort will be
made to transform and enliven the urban environment to make it more
communitarian and to improve the conditions of collective housing. A
considerable effort will be made to render the latter as attractive... as
row houses, which are great consumers of space and energy" (Program, p. 177).
"The
associative movement will be the privileged support of the new citizenry,
particularly to give value to free time... it will be for us especially to
erase social segregation in the realm of free time. We will undertake ... the
development of social forms of leisure and tourism" ("Declaration of General Policy, p.151).
"So,
another way of living is:
"-
first of all to seriously modify the content of work so that eventually the
distinction between work and leisure will no longer have the same meaning that
it does today. But while it is true that this goal can only be
achieved, first and above all through the transformation of work, the
socialists must also propose a parallel transformation of leisure..."
"But
it is necessary to delve more deeply into the other concepts of leisure:
"-
leisure after the workday, close to one's home or in the home itself, will
permit a progressive establishment of new rhythms of life and a change of daily
life. This will necessitate, for example, developing light collective equipment
for various uses. Such leisure is one of the means of having a familial,
cultural and militant life:
"-
weekend leisure ..."
"
leisure after retirement ..."
"No
doubt the content of free time will also be profoundly modified by the
proposals made for other fields: the school, continued education, family,
decentralization, associative life, sports, the media, health and consumption.
They will progressively permit making free time a self-managed time. In
any case, there must be room in the Socialist for a free time conceived s one
that breaks loose from restraints and permits everyone to expand, be it by
individual effort or by participation in collective activities," (Program, pp. 307 - 309). "
.
. . a global conception of social life in which the time of education, the time
of work and the time of leisure are no longer considered isolated moments of
individual and collective existence by rather as elements of a consistent
ensemble" (Program, p. 289). This
"consistency,'' of course, will not be that of the poor "self-managing"
worker but rather that of the SP.
This
is the "paradise" of liberty and democracy of the self-managing
socialist regime.