"The French nationalizations supply an example [of a nursery of the New Class]: the heads of the nationalized enterprises, many of whom hold a party card, behave like the old bosses: same attitudes, same reactions. Perhaps there is a difference: the new bosses claim to be of the proletariat! So, the Socialist Party has not colonized the bourgeois state; the other way round is nearer the truth."
- Maurice Dufour, 1958
[Dufour is a curious figure, who appears to have been involved with the Pat Line in occupied France, but was also under suspicion of being associated with Cagoulards and was sympathetic post-war to the various descendants of Ordre nouveau. He was a critic of planisme and dirigisme in the French economy, which is how I think I found this quote years ago while researching my thesis...]