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Neo-socialist


Neosocialism was the name of a political trend of socialism that existed in France during the 1930s and in Belgium around the same time, and which included several revisionist tendencies in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO).

In the wake of the Great Depression, a group of right-wing members, led by Henri de Man in Belgium, the founder of the ideology planisme, and in France by Marcel Déat, Pierre Renaudel, René Belin, the "neo-Turks" of the Radical-Socialist Party (Pierre Mendès-France, etc.), opposed themselves to both gradual reformism and the idea of a revolution by the masses of Marxism. Instead, influenced by Henri de Man's planisme, they promoted a "constructive revolution" headed by the state and technocrats which would institute planification - the establishment of a technocratic planned economy. Such ideas also influenced the Non-Conformist Movement in the French right-wing.

Marcel Déat published in 1930 Perspectives socialistes (Socialist Perspectives), a revisionist work closely influenced by Henri de Man's planisme. Along with over a hundred articles written in La Vie Socialiste, the review of the SFIO's right-wing, Perspective socialistes marked the shift of Déat from classical Socialism to Neo-Socialism. Déat replaced class struggle by collaboration of classes and national solidarity, advocated corporatism as a social organization model, replaced the notion of "Socialism" by "anti-Capitalism", and supported a technocratic state which would plan the economy and from which parliamentarism would be repealed to be replaced by political technocracy.


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