The French Left and the Fifth Republic: The Discourses of Communism and Socialism in Contemporary France PDF
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THE FRENCH LEFT AND THE FIFTH REPUBLIC Also by John Gaffney INTERPRETATIONS OF VIOLENCE: The Handsworth Riots of 1985 FRANCE AND MODERNISATION (editor) ESSAYS ON POLITICAL CULTURE IN FRANCE AND WEST GERMANY (editor with E. Kolinsky) THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE UK The French Left and the Fifth Republic The Discourses of Communism and Socialism in Contemporary France John Gaffney Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-1-349-19743-9 ISBN 978-1-349-19741-5 (eBook) DOl 10.1007/978-1-349-19741-5 © John Gaffney, 1989 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989 978-0-333-43231-0 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1989 ISBN 978-0-312-01697-5 Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Gaffney, John, 1950- The French Left and the Fifth Republic. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Communism-France. 2. Socialism-France. 3. France-Politics and govemment-1958- 1. Title. HX264 1989 320.5'32'0944 88-2033 ISBN 978-0-312-01697-5 For Melissa Contents Acknowledgements VIII List of Abbreviations IX 1 Presidentialism and the Fifth Republic 1 2 Political Leadership and Political Theory 12 3 Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Texts 31 4 Discourse and Tradition: The Communists 37 5 Tradition and Innovation: The Communists 87 6 Discourse and Organisation: The Socialists 126 7 Organisation and Modernisation: The Socialists 176 8 Conclusion: The Left and the Republic 198 Appendices 1 Motion C to Metz Congress: April 1979 212 2 Convention Nationale du Parti Socialiste: 246 December 1984 Notes 274 Indicative Bibliography 282 Index 297 Acknowledgements First, I must thank the ESRC who funded the initial research for this book. I should also like to thank the staff of Sussex University library and the staff of the libraries, documentation departments and archives of the Assemblee Nationale, La Confederation Fran<;aise Democratique du Travail, La Documentation Fran<;aise, La Fonda tion Nationale des Sciences Politiques, L'Institut de Presse, Le Parti Communiste Fran<;ais, Le Parti Socialiste and L'Universite de Paris I, and, in particular, Marianne Delmaire of the French Socialist Party and Guy Pelachaud of the French Communist Party. I should also like to thank Editions Stock for permission to quote from Pour le socialisme (Editions Stock, 1974), and Editions sociales for permission to quote from G. Marchais, Pour une avancee democrati que (PCF, 1979) and G. Marchais, L'Espoir au present (Editions sociales, 1980). I also wish to express my gratitude to the many academics, journalists, political advisers and practising politicians who gave me information and advice while I was doing my research. I want to thank, for their critical interest in my work and for their comments on specific chapters: David Bell, George Craig, Pamela Gaffney and Peter Newman. I should like to extend my thanks to the Department of Modern Languages at Aston University and my colleagues there for their help and co-operation while I was writing this book. I particularly want to thank Claire Allan who typed and corrected the manuscript, and whose continuous help ensured that the publishers received the text on time. Finally, and most of all, I want to thank Professor Bruce Graham of Sussex University, my researchsupervisor, whose encouragement in the early stages of my postgraduate studies and whose intellectual guidance were invalu able, and whose friendship and continued interest in my work I have appreciated greatly. JOHN GAFFNEY viii List of Abbreviations CERES Centre d'etudes, de recherche et d'education socialistes CFDT Confederation fram;aise democratique du travail CGT Confederation generate du travail CNPF Conseil national du patronat fran~ais CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union FEN Federation d' education nationale GAM Groupes d'a ction municipale MRG Mouvement des radicaux de gauche MRP Mouvement republicain populaire PCF Parti communiste fran~ais PS Parti socialiste PS (SFIO) Parti socialiste (Section fran~aise de l'internationale ouvriere) PSU Parti socialiste unifie RPF Rassemblement du peuple fran~ais RPR Rassemblement pour Ia republique SMC State Monopoly Capitalism (theory of) UDF Union pour Ia democratie fran~aise UNR Union pour Ia nouvelle republique IX
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