THE CAPITALIST REGIME AND COLLECTIVISM:

"Capitalist anarchy has often been portrayed; to characterize it in a word, it suffices to note that, under this regime, there is no security for anyone. Farmers, merchants, industrialists, intellectual workers, and manual workers alike are exposed to all sorts of hazards. But it is from this very excess of evil that salvation will spring. "Collectivism, I uttered that word full of horror, whose magical incantation must make rise up against us the millions of workers in the cities and fields whom socialism is decidedly no longer enough to frighten...
Under the dual influence of scientific progress, of which the development of machinery is only the practical expression, and of the concentration of capital, we are witnessing the expropriation of small landowners, the dissociation of labor and property, the constitution of a new feudalism which, accumulating in its hands the ownership of the instruments of production, would become, by a slow but implacable progression, the absolute mistress of the economic, political, and moral life of the entire people, reduced by it to that modern form of slavery called wage labor.
Well! Collectivism proclaims that wage labor will be no more eternal than those earlier forms of servitude called slavery and serfdom...
"Citizens, I raise my glass to the unity of the Socialist Party, to the conquest of public power by socialism, to the triumph of the Social Republic!"

A. MILLERAND.
May 31, 1996
(Speech at the banquet of socialist municipalities.)