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Survey: France More Anti-Capitalist Than Communist China?

According to a new survey published Wednesday in La Croix newspaper, 33 percent of French citizens believe it’s time to abandon the capitalist system — a proportion higher than any of the other 10 countries surveyed, including Communist China.

Reuters reports:

In China, which is ruled by the Communist Party but has embraced its own brand of capitalism, just 3 percent of those questioned thought that the market system was working badly. China posted economic growth of more than 10 percent last year.

Some 65 percent of the Chinese surveyed said the current system was working well and should not be changed, the highest percentage in the poll, followed by Australia with 63 percent, Brazil with 57 and the United States with 55 percent.

The survey, conducted between Dec. 8 and 23 from some 600 respondents in each country, also showed that the Chinese were the most convinced that wider international trade was in their interest, with 90 percent answering “yes”.

The United States was the most negative about the impact of expanding international trade on their economy, with just 39 percent of those surveyed in favour of it.

According to another poll released earlier this month, the French were more negative about their country’s economic prospects than even Afghanistan and Iraq.

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  • lasthouseontheright
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:45pm

    The way I hear it the U.S. is more anti-capitailist than the Chicoms.

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  • Bigliardi
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:32pm

    Was stationed in France in the early 60′s…Worked in Iingrandes, the birthplace of Rene Descartes, and lived in Chatellerault…French hated us…When I paid my monthly rent I had to endure an endless tirade of anti Americanism from my Landlord; one M’seiur Milon…He would invite me in, sit a liter of wine on his kitchen table, pour a couple of glasses and begin castigating me for the evils of America. For us being in Vietnam, for Lyndon Johnson, for the American way of life, and anything else he could think of. I reminded him that the French were kicked out of Vietnam at Dien Bien Phu, and told him that I wasn’t overly fond of Charles DeGaulle either, and usually gave as good as I got, but of course I couldn’t ever win…I lived in his house….Couldn’t go out on Mayday…That was communist rampage day….Other than being considered an untermensch, and treated accordingly, I guess it was okay….

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    • RLTW
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:04pm

      I spent some time there in the 90’s asked a young French woman I’d met through family why the French hated Americans so much.
      Her answer
      French at one time lead the world in banking, at least linguistically, fashion and wine. America has outperformed the French in everything they held dear.
      National jealousy is what it’s all about.

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  • RLTW
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:27pm

    I can care less about the French, I’m more concerned about the 45% in America that don’t like capitalism.

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  • Bigliardi
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:17pm

    Hey Darmok, Jean Luc Picard the Captain of the Starship Enterprise and killer of Borg was a Frenchman…..The French must have changed a great deal in the future eh…?

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  • florida123
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:17pm

    The French are just stupid! They hate the very people who saved them from Heil Hitler and their children speaking German today!

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  • Bigliardi
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:15pm

    Hey Darmok, Jean Luc Picard the Captain of the Starship Enterprise, and killer of Borg was from France…Obviously the French must change a lot in the future….

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  • CatB
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:42pm

    His perhaps .. but not the We the People.

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  • psst
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:37pm

    Hussein said he can see France from Our House..
    I understand tomorrow he’s calling one of those house moving company to move it “Over There”

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  • GONESURFING
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:31pm

    I like 331/3 as in the speed of a vinyl record. Interesting link, for what it’s worth.

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  • 1me2ao
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:29pm

    so..

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  • jackkemo
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:10pm

    Good!! and the next the Germans get the urge to take control of France , at least we won’t have to save their sorry arses again ! Frech rifles for SALE…. never used , only dropped once!!!

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    • MAProg
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:44pm

      except for the 122,000 French soldiers that died fighting against the NAZI onslaught, as well as the Free French whos offorts were instrumental in the eventual downfall of NAZI Germany.

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  • awiderview
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:10pm

    France is probably the only country that can get away with such a poor work ethic- it just has so much of everything. I live there from May to October and love it…but I certainly wouldn’t want to have a business there- and that’s the way most of the French feel about their country.
    BTW: In polls, their President is even less popular than capitalism. Don’t worry about America becoming more like France…Sarkosy wishes France could be more like America.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:05pm

    Beautiful countryside, beautiful cities, there is only ONE Paris, food, wine and romance but France teems with COMMUNISTS and always has. It is said that Lenin planned in the cafes, the first communist revolt took place there in 1870, (Paris Commune) on and on………….SO, this is news?

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:51pm

    I thought Sarcozy was so pro-American(!), I guess that just meant his wife would divorce him because he was having an affair. As for the French people, do they even work? I thought the unions had them laying around, drinking wine, napping and barely working. If they go with the Chinese, they may actually have to work. I think they had better reconsider…..

    Evening, Snowleopard, hope you had a good day. Windy and cold here – hope you are having good weather there. Cats are all good, how ’bout yours?

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  • butchcoolidge
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:42pm

    so this is news? We have known about the frogs since the 80s.

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  • BONETRAUMA
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:38pm

    well, only two words rhyme with french…stench and mother (fill in the blank).

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:24pm

    I read an article a few weeks ago highlighting Central Europe and their entitlement woes. France’s citizenry is bound to cause their implosion soon the way the protesters are pressuring their gutless government. The way their “ecomony” has been assaulted by the communists, there is no wealth left to be distributed according to the report. They‘re already gone and don’t know it yet.
    Gee, ain’t socialism and communism grand?

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:03pm

    If anyone thinks that Obama is going to center, will also believe that the sky is falling all around us. There is no way that Obama is going to the center anymore than I am going to vote for a Democrat. He is only trying to make everyone think he is so that he can get their votes. Like the old saying a leopard can’t change its spots.

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  • southernloyalty
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:59pm

    33 percent, not much different than the US then. So it looks like 33 percent should be deported to North Korea so they can live out their utopian dreams.

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  • booger71
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:59pm

    According to a new survey published Wednesday in La Croix newspaper, 33 percent of French citizens believe it’s time to abandon the capitalist system

    I thought they already did

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  • natstew
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:56pm

    Another reason why Obama should be dragged out of the White House and tried for treason.

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:54pm

    I guess that‘s why Hussein said they’re our best ally…

    ————

    and yet…his own daughter learns to speak Mandarin ,,,not French

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:52pm

    At least we do know now why he has been pushing that along; wonder if Fox Piven will become the next ambassador to America from France.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:47pm

    Who needs capitalism when you have Socialism? Nanny government? If a French citizen is out of work for 18 months he automatically becomes a ward of the state.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:51pm

      The only difference between a nanny state and a prison is that the prisoner is obviously behind bars and enjoys few rights and privlidges other than what the state grants them. The citizens of the said nanny state enjoy the same as the prisoner while having the ILLUSION of being free when they are just as badly off as the incarcerated prisoners.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:46pm

    At least now we know why Mr Obama has been making words with France lately to have them be the best buddies and friends of America over the long friendship we have with Britian. The people of France are regarding capitalism as a dead subject, and so Obama wants to tie us to them…to have a history of failure and disasters on the same magnitude and ineptness.

    So once again the wheels of history turn, and land on the same tired old story of nation collapsing in on itself.

    At least one question has been answered.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:57pm

      I’m sure of that, spent a lot of time in France and the producers are discouraged by high taxes. There is no incentive to work hard because then you are taxed to death. China on the other hand has less regulation and probably less taxes, they encourage people to work hard a produce. Communist or not China is as or more productive that anyone. Fight back and BUY AMERICAN.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:58pm

      Whats not to love about France
      says Moochelle Antoinette ……..

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:13pm

      Spot on Snowleopard. Maybe they are following Krugmans advice about competition being bad, but then again, capitalism equals competition, losers don’t like competition.

      And as a side note, why would such an advanced race as the Coneheads, claim they are from France?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:13pm

      @Cheezwhiz

      True, wonder how many people remember the french revolution was followed by a time called in history as the ‘Terrors’ for very good reasons.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:15pm

      I hope those of us citizens of America still have enough time to awaken completely, and to save this country from repeating the mistakes others have made. Mistakes we have made, big and small in the history of the nation yes, yet we need to learn from them and move on so they are not repeated, and learn at the same time from others.

      Snowleopard is signing off for the night, and wishes all a great time.

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:24pm

      France…..always the first to surrender.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:27pm

      “The people of France are regarding capitalism as a dead subject, and so Obama wants to tie us to them …”

      Agreed.

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:41pm

      And the 60+ percent that do not agree will just fold anyway, not wanting to offend the marxist’s.
      Embrace communism and you will get what you deserve! France … a beautiful country full of butt wipes!

       
    • GONESURFING
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:50pm

      Still love the food, wine and the women of France, but their socialism is very depressing, on many levels. It was a nice place to visit before when the currency exchange rate was in our favor in the 80s and 90s, but now things are very expensive for us.

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    • foobear
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:36pm

      If you’ve ever been to both France and China, the difference is quite apparent. The French hate any businesses bigger than a neighborhood store, but everywhere you go in China, there’s someone trying to make a buck.

      I once caught a taxi ride from an illegal cab in Beijing. Had his wife and baby in the backseat. Utter capitalist, right? Hustling people for fares at less than the mandated rates for taxis, and risking jail time to do so. Halfway back to my hotel, he asks me if I’ve heard of Mao, and tries to offer me a copy of the Little Red Book. Absolutely hilarious, and emblematic of China in a nutshell.

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    • exdem
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:35pm

      @cheezwiz
      I must be Islamaphobic because your link scared the bejesus out of me! We cant even display a cross on a memorial for veterans or prayer in our schools, but I bet this muslim prayer flash mob would be welcomed.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:42pm

      Just a reminder to you all. The first American Military killed at the beginning of the North African campaign happened at the hands of the French.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:44pm

      @ exdem
      Coming to a location near you…
      http://loganswarning.com/2010/06/15/france-police-ban-pork-and-alcohol-party/

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    • exdem
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 10:40am

      @cheezwiz
      So sad. This is our future in America. We will probably be considered enemies of the state for having summer BBQ’s with our families.

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    • exdem
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 10:44am

      @cheez
      Did the blaze take down your flash mob muslim prayer video? WTF? Has anybody else noticed the Blaze is a little off since Huffypo’s people came on board??

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