Abstract
Throughout their long history, socialists demonstrated a strong ability to review and adapt their doctrine, programmes, and practices to the changes in capitalism, politics, and society. Ideological controversies are an invariant of European socialist culture. This section examines continuities and changes within the socialist movement about the way its actors analyse the mutations of capitalism and conceive their actions, especially regarding the role of the state in some crucial moments. While it is certainly true that each socialist and social democratic party developed national peculiarities up until now, we argue these organizations increasingly converged towards similar positions when they come to deal with capitalism, democratic institutions, and the modern state.
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According to the words of Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, in his general policy declaration of July 8, 1981, http://discours.vie-publique.fr/notices/853032900.html [consulted August 31, 2018].
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The country was then led by a centre-left government that included no socialists since their party had disappeared, swamped by the anti-corruption wave of the early 1990s.
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Lazar, M. (2020). Socialists and Changes in Capitalism and States: Introduction to Part III. In: Fulla, M., Lazar, M. (eds) European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41540-2_14
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