ABSTRACT
The French left's manual in the 1970s was a document the size of a small book with a grand title, Changer la Vie, To Change Life. The introduction of this book was a thirty-three-page essay by the Socialist Party's first secretary, Francois Mitterrand. Equality was a major theme throughout the pages of Changer la Vie. Indeed it listed as its first goal to "respond to the rightful demands of workers by reducing social inequalities". The second goal was: "To improve daily life by paving the way to a new type of society". The third goal was: "To liberate workers from the power of money and to cause the strategy of breaking with capitalism to actually happen". People had grand ideas in the 1960s and 1970s, as is attested by the program's fourth large goal: "give democracy concrete expression". And final goal was: "for a world of peace and justice in which socialist France will have its place".
