Neosocialism

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.