The French Socialist Party never had its “aggiornamento” or “Bad Godesberg” (where the German SPD in 1959 renounced its last vestiges of Marxism). Instead, the party long defended the theory of a revolutionary “rupture” with capitalism, never clearly acknowledging its reformist nature.
但法国社会党的投票对欧洲左翼而言也相当重要。法国社会党从来没有经历过天主教的现代化改革，也没有过巴特戈德斯贝格纲领（德国社民党曾在1959把它称为马克思主义的最后遗迹）。相反，法国社会党一直坚持认为与资本主义分离是循序渐进的演变过程，从未明确承认其改革本质。