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2. The SP, the Center and the Right
The global perspective presented in the last paragraph is the key to understanding the whole Program. 10 The Program accepts and adopts in its entirety the radically egalitarian political heritage that was built up in France starting in 1789. It considers useful the various laws hitherto applied to reduce socio-economic inequalities. It further intends to resolutely move today's France toward the most radical application of the controversial trilogy. 11 The difference between the SP on one hand, and the center and right on the other is that the latter two - for the most part - accept the trilogy, but not with the radical interpretation of the SP. Thus, instead of expressing the desire to reach the ultimate egalitarian goal, they say or imply that they would like to stop at some undefined distance from it. 12
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10. "The Socialist Program is a global and radical program for the reorganization of society, even if it has to be gradual" (Program p. 121). "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).
11. "Let us declare right away that we consider as ours, by right of inheritance, the heritage of the political democracy inaugurated by the bourgeois de robe at the time of King Louts XVI" (Program 15). "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).
12. Our general references to the right do not include the traditionalist French right, which goes much farther in its rejection of the trilogy.
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