#6

"The 'leftist' form of revisionism did not survive the war. In the years following the war, a very different form of revisionism flourished, at first sight closer to the Bernstein tradition but in reality quite different in spirit. This was a 'planist,' technocratic, 'managerial' form of revisionism, which maintained that between traditional capitalism and the proletarian revolution was a third option--the celebrated 'intermediate regimes' referred to by Marcel Déat."

planists: déat, henri de man, bertrand de jouvenel (had an affair w his 40-something stepmother while only 16! writer colette)

h de man: "In reality, there are not many qualitative changes in the history of mankind that can be compared, as regards their revolutionary significance for society and culture, with the change from mechanical movement to electrical movement, from the technique of the lever to the technique of waves, from the cogwheel to the electric wire and wireless transmission, from material to energetic work processes, from mechanistic thought to functional thought." (sternhell 32)

unity (under the sign of the nation) versus fragmentation (under the sign of bourgeois atomization)

anti-cultural positions?
"The critical attitude to individualism, democracy and its institutions, parliamentarianism, and universal suffrage owed a great deal to this new view of man as an essentially irrational being, confined by historical and biological limitations and motivated by sentiments, associations, and images, never by ideas. (P) The belief in the domnance of the unconscious over reason, the stress on deep, mysterious forces led, as a natural and necessary consequence, to an extreme anti-intellectualism. To rationalism, to the critical spirit and its manifestations, the rebels of the end of the nineteenth century opposed intuitive feelings, emotions, enthusiasms, an unthinking spontaneity welling from the depths of the popular subconscious." (sternhell 36)