The Economist has a telling graph comparing the French attitude toward capitalism with other nations around the world (scroll down to the chart entitled “A bas le capitalisme!”): http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6740337
For the past 20 years, the mainstream political choice has been between a form of socio-Gaullism embodied by President Jacques Chirac (who last year described liberalism as a greater threat than communism) and an archaic socialism that fails to understand, or at least to explain, that wealth needs to be created before it can be shared.
The Economist has a telling graph comparing the French attitude toward capitalism with other nations around the world (scroll down to the chart entitled “A bas le capitalisme!”): http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6740337
I love this line from the article: