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<blockquote data-quote="Scoobydoo" data-source="post: 4336891" data-attributes="member: 564934"><p>At the same time, Fascism was instrumentalizing sports for a militarist end, while the SFIO had denounced it as a &quot;bourgeois&quot; and &quot;reactionary&quot; activity. That is, until the Popular Front, when it began to use it as a military and patriotic preparation, in anticipation of a conflict with Nazi Germany. Some SFIO members were not immune to the scientific racism discourse of the times. Thus, Georges Barthélémy, SFIO deputy, could declare that sport contributes to the &quot;improvement of relations between capital and labour, henceforth to the elimination of the concept of class struggle,&quot; in a perfect corporatist conception. Barthélémy also considered sport as a &quot;mean to prevent the moral and physical degeneration of the race.&quot; In this light, as well as in the modern professionalisation and mediatization of sports, Léo Lagrange&#039;s conception takes all its sense, both in opposition to his times and in its modernity</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Scoobydoo, post: 4336891, member: 564934"] At the same time, Fascism was instrumentalizing sports for a militarist end, while the SFIO had denounced it as a "bourgeois" and "reactionary" activity. That is, until the Popular Front, when it began to use it as a military and patriotic preparation, in anticipation of a conflict with Nazi Germany. Some SFIO members were not immune to the scientific racism discourse of the times. Thus, Georges Barthélémy, SFIO deputy, could declare that sport contributes to the "improvement of relations between capital and labour, henceforth to the elimination of the concept of class struggle," in a perfect corporatist conception. Barthélémy also considered sport as a "mean to prevent the moral and physical degeneration of the race." In this light, as well as in the modern professionalisation and mediatization of sports, Léo Lagrange's conception takes all its sense, both in opposition to his times and in its modernity [/QUOTE]

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