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WORLD WAR I AND THE INTERWAR PERIOD A politically active socialist, he nevertheless supported the Allied cause in World War I . After the war, he taught Sociology for a time at the University Of Washington , then moved to Weimar Germany where he wrote and studied on the development of modern socialism and society. Returning to Belgium, he became Vice President of the Parti Ouvrier Belge (POB, Belgian Workers' party). Upon the death of Emile Vandervelde in 1938 , he assumed its presidency. His views on socialism were controversial. His revision of Marxism greatly affected Mussolini . His promotion of the idea of " Planisme ", or planning, was widely influential in the early 1930s, in particular among the Non-Conformist Movement in France. PLAN DE MAN De Man was responsable for a plan which was devised to halt the rise of fascism in Belgium. This plan became widely known as 'Het Plan De Man' and was an example of planism. The plan is comparable to Theodore Roosevelt 's New Deal .SCHUERMANS, W., Memo 6, Uitgeverij De Boeck, Antwerpen, 2005, 204 pages, p. 42-47. COLLABORATION De Man was an advisor to King Leopold , and his mother Queen-Mother Elisabeth . After the capitulation of the Belgian Army in 1940, he issued a manifesto to POB's members, welcoming the German occupation: "For the working classes and for socialism, this collapse of a decrepit world, far from being a disaster, is a deliverance." Convicted of Treason '' In Absentia '' after the war, he fled to Switzerland. He died in 1953 in a collision with a train. His nephew, the literary theorist Paul De Man , became famous in the United States as a leading proponent of " Deconstructionism ", but after his death in 1983 was found to have written articles in the wartime Nazi-controlled press that discussed Antisemitic themes. WRITINGS OF DE MAN
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